Chuck Klosterman Quotes - Page 9

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• The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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

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• I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

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  Country, People, Way

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• Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Two, America

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Baseball, Sex, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• When Arthur Schlesinger Sr. pioneered the 'presidential greatness poll' in 1948, the top five were Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jefferson. Only Wilson appears to be seriously fading, probably because his support for the World War I-era Sedition Act now seems outrageous; in this analogy, Woodrow is like the Doors and the Sedition Act is Oliver Stone.

  Chuck Klosterman

  War, Greatness, Doors

  Chuck Klosterman (2009). “Eating the Dinosaur”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Oh sure, it seems obvious now, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't think of it when it's relevant. Seriously, punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

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  Heart, Thinking, Ice Cream

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• In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.

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  Halloween, Dresses, Way

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

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• I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, "You're being idiots, this happens every other year."

  Chuck Klosterman

  Real, Hate, Epidemics

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

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• In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do that, though, because I don't like having things on my face.

  Chuck Klosterman

  People, Flu, Faces

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

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• When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Drinking, Mask, Pops

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

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• When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

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  Writing, Next Day, Use

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• The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

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  Fun, Book, Writing

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• As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.

  Chuck Klosterman

  People, Who Cares, Adults

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

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• I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Cancer, Fighting, Thinking

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

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• It's possible for me to imagine a generation of people maybe two generations removed from you who might decide that we have an adversarial relationship with technology.

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  Technology, Two, 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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• I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be almost unable to imagine life without an Internet component interlocked with it.

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  Moving, Thinking, Age

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

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• Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.

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  Careers, Lucky, Kind

  "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 you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

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  Talking, Needs, Interviews

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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.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Moving, People

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

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• I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

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  Used, Ifs

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

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• I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

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  Thinking, America, Library

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• The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.

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  Jobs, Home, Writing

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• All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Rocks, Order, Criticism

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

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• I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Growing Up, Book

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

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• If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Ocean, Feet, Ideas

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

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