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Walter Kirn Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Literature Enough Long Nothing Legs

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

Knowledge Key Now Human Depend

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Robert Schumann

Life Mind Rest Body Find Strive

I'm totally comfortable not being as funny as Larry David.

Funny Comfortable Being Totally

The first time I performed on stage, that was almost the first concert I went to, so that was pretty interesting and a bit weird at the same time.

Time Weird Interesting First Time

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

Mary Ellen Mark

Pictures My Own Own Prom Fascinated

This country has a wonderful spirit.

Country Spirit Wonderful

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Child Sometimes Human Study Turn

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Denzel Washington

Good Open Like Piece Material Ought

In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

Good Health Losing Compromise Lose

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

Chazz Palminteri

Love People Movies Started Chances

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

Christopher Columbus

Sea Ocean Book Picture Down New

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

History People Long Authoritarian Up

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