Walter Kirn Quotes

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To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your Core Attachments, means apologizing for your very existence.

Walter Kirn
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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I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

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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.

Walter Kirn
A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

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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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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.

Walter Kirn
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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It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.

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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 feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

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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.

Walter Kirn
You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

Walter Kirn