Chuck Klosterman Quotes

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• First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.
• Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.
• Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.
• Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and…
• A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview…
• I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used…
• To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but…
• You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I…
• The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
• The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things…
• When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within…
• At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of…
• I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people…
• Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary…
• Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
• Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether…
• Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally…
• Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
• Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see…
• Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most…

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