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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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted.
~ Walter Kirn
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If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I’d opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.
~ Walter Kirn
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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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