Chuck Klosterman Quotes

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

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• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Law
  • Foolish

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Always
  • Newspaper
  • Reporter

• I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Learn
  • Write
  • Newspaper

• I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Family
  • Feeling
  • Change

• Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Saying
  • Newspaper

• Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Lost
  • Evil

• We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

  

  Bob Graham
  • War
  • Responsibility
  • Military

• When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson

• Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Children

• We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

  

  David Dimbleby
  • Life

• The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Inspiration
  • Newspaper

• I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • People
  • Different
  • Truth

• It occurred to me that cats were being held back a little bit. I thought, 'I'll give the cat human thoughts and feelings but not be apologetic for it. That would be very catlike.'

  

  Jim Davis
  • Thoughts
  • Cat

• The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Free

• The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • May
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

  

  Arthur Christiansen
  • Bad
  • Newspaper
  • Editor

• When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Stealing
  • Republicans
  • Visionary

• That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Universe
  • Treat
  • Newspaper

• I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any weight whatsoever, it should automatically go to the other side.

  

  Ray Guy
  • Politics
  • Newspaper
  • Automatically

• It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Women
  • Same
  • View

• I tend to name albums after one of the songs.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Songs
  • Name
  • Tend

• Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Newspaper
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  • Illiterates