I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

Walter Kirn

Tags: art artists



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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 random intervals.

Walter Kirn


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It’s the little deceptions that no one catches that are going to dissolve it all someday. We’ll look at clocks and we won’t believe the hands. They’ll forecast sun but we’ll pack our slickers anyway.

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Overpopulation has a ceiling: earth’s total surface area divided by the dimensions of one economy seat. One more baby is born and hello cannibalism.

Walter Kirn


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The atom was split by persistence.

Walter Kirn


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The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature allows. It's a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?

Walter Kirn

Tags: inspiration



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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Walter Kirn

Tags: politics friends enemies twitter 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting partisanship



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Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault

Walter Kirn

Tags: language twitter 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game jared-lee-loughner jacques-derrida michel-foucault



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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Walter Kirn

Tags: hypocrisy twitter witch-hunts 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game



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[T]he anti-vitriol vitriol is getting ugly.

Walter Kirn

Tags: twitter 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game



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