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It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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Journalist
Music Critic
Breckenridge
Minnesota
Charles John Klosterman
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[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.
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If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.
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If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.
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Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.
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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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The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
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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.
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We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.
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If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
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If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about music. I'm not sure why that is. There seems to be more to write about with music, just because it's more of a splintered thing. There's more subgenres. With sports, it's more objective in a way.
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Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.
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