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Chuck Klosterman
Fake Chuck Klosterman account, used for collecting his choicest quotes...cause somebody's gotta tweet em if he won't. @choicechuck
RT @rfish32, quoting Chuck on a recent BS report "You can't trust someone when they never talk about themselves"
"Papers frequently quote people who are openly lying, almost every sound bite you hear in the news is partially false." http://notes.ztaylor.org/post...
"The cruelest thing you can do is quote someone verbatim, which makes even smart people sound like idiots."
"“I guess I’ve just really become comfortable w/ the idea that none of this is real, and that we’re not quite in the Matrix but it’s close"
"We are sort of underestimating how unreal almost every experience we’re having is." http://17dots.com/2009...
"As a species, we have never been less human than we are right now."
"Mr. Klosterman's relentlessly thoughtful prose makes a case that our arts & entertainment are more suffused with meaning than ever before."
I can't sing/play anything. The fact of the matter is only the very worst critics aspire to do what they're criticizing: http://www.esquire.com/feature...
"Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who’s like yourself in every way, only to realize that this stranger is boring as shit."
"But sometimes while writing (suddenly) you find yourself reading something you didn’t realize you already knew."
RT @SpottedNigel: "I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it" - Chuck Klosterman
"I'm depressed a lot, usually for no reason (although sometimes I'm just hungry, which often feels the same).
RT @gogospooky: "I have always been deeply aroused by bookish whores, but I remain stoic." - chuck klosterman
"The degree to which anyone values the Internet is proportional to how valuable the Internet makes that person."
Chuck Klosterman, talking about the Unabomber: "Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy."
“People who follow politics closely can’t comprehend people who aren’t partially lying.They’re intellectually paralyzed by literal messages” - http://choicechuck.tumblr.com/post...
"People who follow politics closely can't comprehend people who aren’t partially lying.They're intellectually paralyzed by literal messages"
“I enjoy Don Draper. He’s got a lot of quality suits. But I’m afraid I might be his employer, and I don’t even know it.” - http://choicechuck.tumblr.com/post...
"I enjoy Don Draper. He's got a lot of quality suits. But I'm afraid I might be his employer, and I don't even know it."
“It’s because Klosterman doesn’t blog and because everyone else does, that he got Eating the Dinosaur published.” F.Diaz http://su.pr/27coeS - http://choicechuck.tumblr.com/post...
"It's because Klosterman doesn’t blog and because everyone else does, that he got Eating the Dinosaur published." F.Diaz http://flavorwire.com/47811...
“Trying to be perfect doesn’t make your art any better-sometimes the mistakes r as important as the things u get right” http://su.pr/32NdzK - http://choicechuck.tumblr.com/post...
RT @sacca “Recently met someone who knew Lloyd Dobler, not from the movie, but as a Chuck Klosterman book reference. Wow, am I getting old.” - http://choicechuck.tumblr.com/post...
"I thought I knew certain inalienable truths. I was wrong. What I knew were assumed truths, which r not the same thing." http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009...
"Trying to be perfect doesn’t make your art any better-sometimes the mistakes r as important as the things u get right” http://flavorwire.com/47377...
“Thinking slightly differently can have an exponential consequence particularly when applied to an activity that’s assumed to be inflexible” - http://choicechuck.tumblr.com/post...
"Thinking slightly differently can have an exponential consequence particularly when applied to an activity that's assumed to be inflexible"
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