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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.

Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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Music Critic
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Charles John Klosterman
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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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It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.
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The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning.
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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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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
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I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.
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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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In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
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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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