Quotes by Chuck Klosterman

“It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Ive had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase, exSex Pistols vocalist John Lydon once told Rolling Stone. I found him completely dishonest and...”

“Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans.”

“As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didnt own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you dont own a TV simply means y...”

“Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because s...”

“....the increasingly common ideology that assures people theyre right about what they believe.... is, however, socially detrimental . It hijacks conversation and aborts ideas. It engenders a delusi...”

“The ultimate failure of the United States will probably not derive from the problems we see or the conflicts we wage. It will more likely derive from our uncompromising belief in the things we cons...”

“Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and think, That would certainly make everything easier, even though I cant think of one person whod ...”

“Theres one kind of writing thats always easy: Picking out something obviously stupid and reiterating how stupid it obviously is. This is the lowest form of criticism, easily accomplished by anyone....”

“When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?”

“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are comple...”

“We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.”

“The deeper reality is that Im not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that Im certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?There is almost certainly a constru...”

“In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one per...”