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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
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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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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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The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.
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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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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 feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.
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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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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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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn
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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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Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.
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Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
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A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
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The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.
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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 still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.
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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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He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.
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Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
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