Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of … - Walter Kirn
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of …
- Walter Kirn
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone. - Walter Kirn
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted. - Walter Kirn
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden. - Walter Kirn
I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confi… - Walter Kirn
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confi…
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… - Walter Kirn
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…
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 to… - Walter Kirn
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 to…
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too. - Walter Kirn
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.
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 outw… - Walter Kirn
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 outw…
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