Chuck Klosterman Quotes
It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I find the business world hard.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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You know you have that zealousness of the young person that feels like you can go out and do it all. You know you save the world, save your gente, save women and before you know it if you try to do that you will burn out very quickly. My feeling is that I always think that and my advice to young people regardless of what times in these decades we've been living in there's always work to be done. The point is what can you do personally that you can live with so that you can get up the next morning and have the strength to start it all over again.
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I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.
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So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.
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Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
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It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
