A Quote by Walter Kirn

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

Walter Kirn

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Walter Kirn
American - Novelist
Born: August 3, 1962

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Howard Wilkinson

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Michael Ondaatje

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Elayne Boosler

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Susan Sontag

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Henry J. Kaiser

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