Walter Kirn - In America, to be ID'd - sorted,... | Quotesia

In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

Walter Kirn

American Novelist

Born: Aug 3, 1962

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