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Walter Kirn Quotes

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1962

Topics

College Language Poet Atmosphere

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Car Moving Looks Lights Only Like

I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision.

Decision Mom Plant Year You Back

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Marriage Wife Support Partnership

I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.

Beautiful People Me Leaving Land

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Truth Myself Pain World Truth Is

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

Good Great Words I Am Book Page

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

Creative Guitar Doing Enough Know

Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.

End You Cheap First Expensive Them

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.

Sushant Singh Rajput

Money Day Bike College Eating Hands

I'm hungry. I'm ready to grow.

Grow Ready Hungry

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

Me Lose Never Temper Rule Keep

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

Scott Westerfeld

Gun More Common Machine Sinister

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