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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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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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Charles John Klosterman
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I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.
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I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always positive in the short term but inevitably somewhat negative in the long term. And I think there are many examples of this in every possible context.
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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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Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
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Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.
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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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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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Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.
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Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed
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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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I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.
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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.
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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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Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
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The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably.
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That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.
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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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...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as the sport of the future since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
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Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.
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If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
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