chuck klosterman Quotes

If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down the strings of his acoustic guitar. ...And we were convinced that this was the definitive illustration of what we both loved about music; we loved hearing the INSIDE of a song.

- Chuck Klosterman

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

- Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman

It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.

- Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

- Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.

- Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman

And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.

- Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman

The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.

- Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman

The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.

- Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

- Chuck Klosterman, but what if we are wrong chuck klosterman

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

- Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.