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It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.
Chuck Klosterman
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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, You're being idiots, this happens every other year.
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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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