Thoughts are thoughts and that’s all they are.
~ Walter Kirn

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This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
~ Walter Kirn

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Though I no longer liked him or respected him, the thought of his disapproval frightened me.
~ Walter Kirn

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I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.
~ Walter Kirn

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Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.
~ Walter Kirn

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How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would mean we deserved it. We do not.
~ Walter Kirn

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Liars are exhausting people.
~ Walter Kirn

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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

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Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.
~ Walter Kirn

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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted.
~ Walter Kirn

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