“We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable.” KnowsMeanLyingDifferencesSituationRolesDramaticInternalsFlatsModestManageableDramatic Situations Author:Walter Kirn
“realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.” KnowsWritingYearsCoursesGamesLevelsPlansSubjectsConsciousIntentionWitEngaged Author:Walter Kirn
“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.” KnowsHumansStillsHuman BeingsInterestingActingIntervalsRetarded Book:Up in the Air: A Novel Source: Up in the Air: A Novel
