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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.

Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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