Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you’d be amazed at… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person?… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think one of the many interesting things about [Donald] Trump is that people in the media did not take him seriously… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog."… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against slavery, people… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much. — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's "Should've Been a Cowboy," and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. "Should've Been a Cowboy"… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
![“I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer…” quote by Chuck Klosterman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab9/chuck-klosterman-804_cancer_i-think-one-possibility-in-the-future-mi_1763962.jpg)
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