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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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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Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.
~ Walter Kirn
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