Chuck Klosterman Quotes

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• The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.
• Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.
• There was a time in our very recent history when it was “interesting” to be a Star Wars fan. It was sort of like admitting…
• It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.
• The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but…
• This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.
• We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.
• My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she…
• We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much…
• It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't…
• We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.
• When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.
• Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
• The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
• -- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some…
• Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know…
• It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.
• Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit…
• The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably.
• Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how…

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