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Walter Kirn Quotes

Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Technology Together Control Humanity

If you're going to wake up early all the time, and you're working hard, and you're working out, sometimes you're going to get tired. It's OK. It's acceptable - somewhat. We're all human, unfortunately.

Time Tired Wake Up You Early Hard

I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

Walls Fighting Trying Brick Run

The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken.

Eyes One Thing The One Thing Thing

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years.

Life Work Funny Friend Beautiful Me

Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby.

Growth Soul Tired Looking Feel You

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

Focus Creative Brain Play See Gone

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Christopher Buckley

Conservative Libertarian Instincts

All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I've got them. So I'm not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It's something that means something to me. It's something that I believe in.

Colin Kaepernick

Work Progress Me Believe Thought

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

Moment Parent Actor Single Going

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

Purpose Challenges Face Fair Clear

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Best Experience Story Feel Way Six

If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn't been there in my lifetime.

Nicola Sturgeon

Growth Community Me Building You

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