Chuck Klosterman Quotes

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• Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

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  Love, Art, Process

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

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  Thinking, Life Is, Sex Drugs

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• 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; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.

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  Mother, Desire, Needs

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.

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  Lying, Sleep, Past

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

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  Opinion

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

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  Lying, Sarcasm, Purpose

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Dying, Littles, Collections

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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• Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

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  Soundtracks, Interaction, Humans

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it’s a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.

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  Writing, Ideas, Trying

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “This Is Emo: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

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  Important, Want, Cliche

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.

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  Interesting, Has Beens, Replaced

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “What Happens When People Stop Being Polite: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

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  Love You, Too Much, Firsts

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

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  Thinking, Different, Arguing

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

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• Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

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  Relationship, Struggle, Power

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.9, 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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• 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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• It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying.

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  Trying, Peculiar, Remember

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• Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

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  Loss, Lunch, Recognition

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Why don't I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don't like people, and that crowds are just collections of people. That seems like a very nihilistic way to look at the world.

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  People, Looks, World

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

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• I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.

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  Artist, Trying, Able

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

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  Dream, People, Trying

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

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  Music, People, Car

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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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• I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.

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  Distance, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• 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 in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

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  Dark, Thinking, Needs

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