People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably …

Chuck Klosterman
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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. ✨ Chuck Klosterman (2008). Downtown Owl: A Novel, p.261, Simon and Schuster
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