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

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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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I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.
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Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average males are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture.
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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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Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).
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The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably.
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People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or-at the very least-why their wrongness felt right at the time, which is very, very different from being authentically correct.
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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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Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
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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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Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.
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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
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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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If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
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Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste they use is internal, and says more about them than about the record they're writing about.
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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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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
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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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That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.
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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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Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?
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