Chuck Klosterman Quotes - Page 2

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• Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

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  Way, Rich, Poor

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

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  Accomplishment, People, Belief

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

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  Believe, People, Generations

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

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  Care, Villain, Persons

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

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  Design, Creative, Vision

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• What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who have no relationship to physicality and a percentage of the populace who still does.

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  Football, Class, People

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• The problem a lot of writers have is that they really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.

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  People, Feel Good, Feelings

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• This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

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  Alive, Matter, Like You

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I am ready to be alone.

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  Ready

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.

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  Thinking, Mind, Doe

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Every possible opinion is authored about everything. What's going to eventually happen is someone will look back on this period and have to sift through it. The overwhelming majority of those opinions are going to be ignored, because if every opinion is being offered, really no opinion is being offered.

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  Looks, Majority, Opinion

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• 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 do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out.

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  Animal, Thinking, People

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.

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  Horse, Past, Reality

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.

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  People, Remember, Made

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

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  Years, People, Insane

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

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  Music, Song, Nice

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

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  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive. It's really hard to do a literary reproduction of what makes you happy. That's what I try to do. If nothing else, it seems like there's enough people out there telling the world what isn't cool, or what's terrible, or what's depressing. I think there's an element of cynicism in my writing, but I'm an optimistic cynic.

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  Depressing, Hate, Moving

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• We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

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  Believe, Kind, Certain

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but I kind of see technology as this harmful thing that's so ingrained in my life that it sort of dictates and controls my relationship with it.

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  Mean, Technology, Use

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• -- 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 sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.

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  Thinking, People, Guarding

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “The Visible Man: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.

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  Jobs, Way, Succeed

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.

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  Crazy, Book, Reading

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• I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.

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  Technology, Thinking, Years

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous existence. For example, infants who die from SIDs were actually great people when they were alive for real, so they get to go to heaven after a mere five weeks in purgatory. Meanwhile anyone Willard Scott ever congratulated for turning one hundred two was obviously a terrible individual who had many many previous sins to pay for and had to spend a century in his or her own unknown purgatory even though the person seemed perfectly wholesome in this particular world.

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  Real, Reflection, Thinking

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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