Chuck Klosterman Quotes

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• Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what…
• Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the…
• Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.
• As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.
• If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope…
• We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.
• It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
• The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.
• Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire;…
• Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can…
• Art and love are the same thing: Its the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you
• A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on…
• I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in…
• I keep saying the word weird over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.
• I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to…
• In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment…
• It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned…
• It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you…

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