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Walter Kirn Quotes

American - Novelist | August 3, 1962 -

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

Women Great Woman Reading Sexy Know

I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

Great Me World Wrong Price Open

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

College Questions Know Flexible Like

Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

Good Morning Waiting Wake Up Border

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.

Literature Enough Long Nothing Legs

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

Saying Slow Language American Genius

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

Work Think Fine Characters Creators

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Ambition Fiction Critic Being Mine

According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

Good Bad Guilty Movies Pleasure

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

Life Age Earth Everything Ground

I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption.

Day Job Healing Self View Sometimes

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

Alone Social Media Media Choice

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