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The market is the only critic that matters.

Walter Kirn

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Market
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Commerce
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Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.
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Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
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You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.
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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
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I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.
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The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.
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I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.
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I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.
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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
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The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.
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What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?
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Love is a powerful painkiller.
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Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.
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To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.
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The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.
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