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The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.
Walter Kirn
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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
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Akron
Ohio
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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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I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.
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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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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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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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Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.
Walter Kirn
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty delights - and I like to gorge on them now and then.
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When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
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realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.
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The market is the only critic that matters.
Walter Kirn
Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
Walter Kirn
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.
Walter Kirn
Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.
Walter Kirn
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
Walter Kirn
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.
Walter Kirn
The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.
Walter Kirn
To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.
Walter Kirn