Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it. Walter Kirn More Quotes by Walter Kirn More Quotes From Walter Kirn 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 accusing honest way Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely. Walter Kirn kissing devotion people The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone. Walter Kirn lessons media choices Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn Walter Kirn cunning quiet I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty delights - and I like to gorge on them now and then. Walter Kirn popcorn memorable book What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them? Walter Kirn bones cold chickens The best critic needn't be right, just interesting. Walter Kirn critics interesting The market is the only critic that matters. Walter Kirn commerce critics matter 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. Walter Kirn tired views writing 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. Walter Kirn fans soul reflection 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. Walter Kirn lying art thinking In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth. Walter Kirn touching age moving My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do. Walter Kirn new-york dream book When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what? Walter Kirn drs influence real Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted. Walter Kirn hunts witch long 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 retarded acting interesting To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence. Walter Kirn apologizing attachment mean The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them. Walter Kirn ugly faces beautiful 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. Walter Kirn insightful stories fiction The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible. Walter Kirn who-we-are lines levels
