Chuck Klosterman Quotes

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• It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.
• In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
• There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that…
• Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.
• It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
• Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else…
• Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's…
• Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
• But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind…
• I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.
• Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and…
• The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was…
• Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.
• Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
• It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie…
• The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in…
• People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.
• Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's…
• Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
• Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails…

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