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Walter Kirn

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
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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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A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't he or she discerns material in situations that others simply live through. Perhaps there are some who disapprove of this, but without this double consciousness, literature would not get made at all.
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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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Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn
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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 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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At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.
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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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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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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
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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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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.
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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 preferred that my bad dreams be vague.
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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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Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.
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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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It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.
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The market is the only critic that matters.
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