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Chuck Klosterman

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01Undated

People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.

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02Undated

However, I suppose VH1 *is* selling me something; they're selling nostalgia, which means they're selling my own memories back to me, which means they're selling me to me.

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03Undated

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

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04Undated

...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.

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05Undated

The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

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06Undated

F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being entertained. Of course, the reader isn't really sure, either. They just want to know when they're supposed to pretend to be amused.

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07Undated

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

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08Undated

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

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09Undated

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

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10Undated

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

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11Undated

Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. It’s so formulaic and unsurprising that you wouldn’t dare re-create it in a movie. All the critics would mock it. They’d all say the screenwriter was a hack who didn’t even try. This is why movies have less value than we like to pretend — movies can’t show reality, because honest depictions of reality offend intelligent people.

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12Undated

It"s easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing with a monster.

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13Undated

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

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