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

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

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

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