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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
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The most beautiful faces have some ugly in 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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The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.
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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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Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
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Love is a powerful painkiller.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.
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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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What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?
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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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It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.
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I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.
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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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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
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