Chuck KlostermanPundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things… ▶361HumanityLove
Chuck KlostermanBut it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2004). Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A L… ▶362Humor
Chuck KlostermanWe argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.351Politics
Chuck KlostermanWomen 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 re… ▶362HumanityLifePolitics
Chuck KlostermanThis is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2008). Downtown Owl: A Novel, p.27, Simon and Schuster351LifeReading
Chuck KlostermanNine 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 a… ▶341Time
Chuck KlostermanIt feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2006). Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, p.34, Simon and Schuster374LoveTruth
Chuck KlostermanI cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it … ▶342LifeReadingThought
Chuck KlostermanA homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately … ▶375Truth
Chuck KlostermanThe strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2004). Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, p.169, Simon and Schuster342Truth
Chuck KlostermanI 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 edito… ▶365HumanityLifeReading
Chuck KlostermanBook writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.321Reading
Chuck KlostermanI doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2004).… ▶355Humanity
Chuck KlostermanWhat is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolu… ▶322Reading
Chuck KlostermanIn and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself. ✨ Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. Book by Chuck Kloste… ▶355Reading
Chuck KlostermanMaybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and expe… ▶355LifeThoughtTime
Chuck KlostermanThere are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone's life is ent… ▶312Life
Chuck KlostermanThe things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2008). Downtown Owl: A Novel, p.73, Simon and Schuster301Reading
Chuck KlostermanIt doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2010). Tomorrow Rarely Knows: An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur, p.11, Simon and… ▶345Sadness
Chuck KlostermanSaying you like Piano Man doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2010). The Billy J… ▶345Death
Chuck KlostermanNecessity 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,… ▶378Reading
Chuck KlostermanIf you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're no… ▶368Time
Chuck KlostermanWhenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my fun… ▶379HumanityTime
Chuck KlostermanInternet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a… ▶346HumanityThought
Chuck KlostermanLet's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film realistic, everyone knows what that means--it means the movi… ▶346LoveSadness
Chuck KlostermanBy now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is the real world is The Rea… ▶335ReadingTimeTruth
Chuck KlostermanThe last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2005). Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, p.232, Simon and Schuster314LoveTruth
Chuck KlostermanBeing interesting has been replaced by being identifiable. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2010). What Happens When People Stop Being Polite: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, … ▶369Humanity
Chuck KlostermanThe 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 in… ▶3710Humanity
Chuck KlostermanMostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2004). Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puf… ▶326Death
