Walter Kirn Quotes

Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.

I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.

It’s our imperfections that make us vulnerable, make us interesting. How can I make myself a bit of an asshole and still have humanity about it?

Your thorns are the best part of you.

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.

Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.

I love imperfections.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.

Imperfection is perfection.

Every flaw, scar, or mark you may have adds to your beauty.

You should realize that there is only one version of yourself in the world and that your flaws make you beautiful.

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

Perfect is boring, human is beautiful

Imperfections define perfection

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.

I am inspired by so much. I am inspired by women, of course - beautiful women. I am also inspired by not so beautiful things in the world.

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.