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First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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Breckenridge
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Charles John Klosterman
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The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have.
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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 biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.
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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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Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed
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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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I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.
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Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?
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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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When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.
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Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time.
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Life is rarely about what happened it's mostly about what we think happened.
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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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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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Why don't I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don't like people, and that crowds are just collections of people. That seems like a very nihilistic way to look at the world.
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Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.
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Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.
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The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists theyre people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
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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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What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who have no relationship to physicality and a percentage of the populace who still does.
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