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You can't go into the office and be a jerk. You can't yell at your kids or your wife or your husband for no reason. That makes you a terrible person.

Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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I am ready to be alone.
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Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable impracticality almost seems cool.
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Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
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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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If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
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...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as the sport of the future since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
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