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Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Cunning
Quiet
Bested
Brawn
Boastful

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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'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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It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.
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Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
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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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I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.
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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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I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.
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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
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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.
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