Walter Kirn Quotes
I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
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'You have no right to be jealous of a woman who wants to be more of a woman by watching a man dressed up as a woman.'
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I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.
