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| 79f3966 | And when they finally demanded that I had to stop keeping score and that I needed to play every future contest as an exhibition, I casually made the kind of statement sixteen-year-olds should not make to forty-six-year-old Midwestern housewives: "Why are you telling me how to do my job?" I asked. "It's not like I show up in your kitchen and tell you when to bake cookies." -- | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 176c0af | As a rule, people who classify art as "irrelevant" are trying to position themselves above the entity; it's a way of pretending they're more in step with contemporary culture than the artist himself, which is mostly a way of saying they can't find a tangible reason for disliking what something intends to embody. Moreover, the whole argument is self-defeating: If you classify something as "irrelevant," you're (obviously) using it as a unit o.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 95865ee | There is, certainly, an unbreachable chasm between the subjective and objective world. A reasonable person expects subjective facts to be overturned, because subjective facts are not facts; they're just well-considered opinions, held by multiple people at the same time. Whenever the fragility of those beliefs is applied to a specific example, people bristle--if someone says, "It's possible that Abraham Lincoln won't always be considered a g.. | judgement objectivity opinion subjectivity | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 815ebf0 | If Elvis ..is the definition of rock, then rock is remembered as showbiz...It becomes a solely performative art form, where the meaning of a song matters less than the person singing it. It becomes ...if Dylan...becomes the definition of rock, everything reverses. In this contingency, lyrical authenticity becomes everything: Rock is galvanized as an intellectual craft, interlocked with the folk tradition...The fact that Dylan does not have.. | philosophy rock | Chuck Klosterman | |
| b2403d1 | I think the larger sect of liars are people who think they are telling the truth, but who really have no idea what the truth is. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 87e4934 | The single-biggest proof that the Dixie Chicks are Van Halen is their audience; they are singing to the same teenage boys, except those boys are now teenage girls. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 4728f07 | During the 1970s (and particularly because of Vietnam), it slowly became standard for absolutely everyone to go to college, particularly if they had no desire to get a real job. One of the results was a massive population of film school students, most of whom became waiters and valets in the 1980s. Since the vast majority of these Kubrick wannabes couldn't crack the motion picture industry, they saw opportunities to make minimovies in the w.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| f09a997 | We live in an age where virtually no content is lost and virtually all content is shared. The sheer amount of information about every current idea makes those concepts difficult to contradict, particularly in a framework where public consensus has become the ultimate arbiter of validity. In other words, we're starting to behave as if we've reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is undoubtedly false, the sensation of certi.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 1047afe | Q: Assume everything about your musical tastes was reversed overnight. Everything you once loved, you now hate; everything you once hated, you now love. For example, if your favorite band has always been R.E.M., they will suddenly sound awful to you; they will become the band you dislike the most. By the same token, if you've never been remotely interested in the work of Yes and Jethro Tull, those two groups will instantly seem fascinating... | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| fb32abd | This is how the present must be considered whenever we try to think about it as the past: It must be analyzed through the values of a future that's unwritten. Before we can argue that something we currently appreciate deserves inclusion in the world of tomorrow, we must build that future world within our mind. This is not easy (even with drugs). But it's not even the hardest part. The hardest part is accepting that we're building something .. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 786d6fc | his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom. | child klosterman lazy-eye | Chuck Klosterman | |
| ff03c10 | Sid and Nancy's relationship forever illustrates the worst part of being in love with anyone, which is that people in love can't be reasoned with. | love | Chuck Klosterman | |
| e8682b7 | Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way," I said slowly, thinking. "That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks that may be changed at will." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 3ccaf8c | The other shoppers were too well behaved to stare at the green-headed stoner and the tear-streaked lady zigzagging up the aisles with a chubby bearded guy scurrying behind them picking up the things they dropped. | humor humorous-quotes irony | Amy Goldman Koss | |
| d0e8711 | It is human nature, to give in hope of getting. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| e957270 | In love, howsoever it is manifest, we are greater than the sum of our parts. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| ada04f5 | It existed almost by oversight, "far removed from reality," as one of the "Kandy Kids" wrote, "where everyone had an academic interest in the war but found life far too pleasant to do anything too drastic about it." | Bob Spitz | ||
| 2fe21e5 | Later, when the other Beatles arrived, the crowd in the street had swelled to an estimated twenty-thousand, some of whom were whipped up in a terrific heat. Others, many of them young girls who had been waiting since dawn, suffered from hunger and exhaustion. The police force, which had been monitoring the situation nervously, called in the army and navy to help maintain order, but it was short-lived. By late afternoon, with chants of "We w.. | Bob Spitz | ||
| fb95ee2 | Yoko Ono, quite simply, did things that John Lennon did not dare. | Philip Norman | ||
| 698f016 | I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 3b1da56 | I reveled in solitude. If Lily wanted to believe there was a somebody out there just for her, I wanted to believe that I could be somebody in here just for me. | Rachel Cohn David Levithan | ||
| 2a3d639 | Jealousy hot flashes through my body, a thunderbolt crashing through. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 77a90a1 | From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening. | soul | Rachel Cohn | |
| 385bc78 | I want to be the girl Zhara once was. Hellbeast Maybe I am, already. I go to Astrid's drawer. I take: her knife. In the siding of the drawer, I notice her scrawl carved into the wood. She wrote: To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. --Isaiah 42:7 Amen, sister. Someone should pay for their sins. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 9a21415 | The Secret tactic of a good hard bargainer is know when to compromise. For instance. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 28388aa | I wanted to live inside it, not write in it. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| bf8008c | She was laughing at something Dov was saying to her, but she was looking at me, like he was the distraction and I was the conversation. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 235d7aa | I knew she was leaving. I knew we were never going to date long-distance. I knew that we wouldn't have been able to be like this back when were were dating, so there was no use in regretting what hadn't happened. I suspected that what happens in hotel rooms rarely lasts outside of them. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present... ..It was snowing outside, .. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 327e164 | Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| ba4b395 | This is the funny thing about New York - there are so many things to do at all times of the day, but there are still moments when you have no idea which of them to do, and feel extra silly because you know there has to be something out there for you to do; your mind just hasn't found it yet. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 5e5a643 | There's an alone that calls out for rescue--but this appeared to be an alone that wanted to be left alone. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 7c29394 | We will go Awful and die together. But we will do it as free Betas. Not as puppets of the humans. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| c325d9d | the infinite Manhattan night. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 13af51c | All the librarians turned their heads to me in a collective shush. "I'm afraid you have to survive library school, put up with the general public on a daily basis, and endure several years of budget cuts in order to deserve these drinks," Chris told me kindly. "But someday, Dash, all this will be yours! We know how to spot 'em, and you're a young, temporarily one-eyed librarian in the rough!" | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 1eb9694 | My brother, Langston, said, "Lily, you don't understand because you've never been in love. If you had a boyfriend, you'd understand." Langston has a new boyfriend and all I understand from that is a sorry state of co-dependence." | relationships | Rachel Cohn | |
| 832290f | I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 64ee219 | He would always say that what really matters in life is to 'Follow your dreams and to look after your friends and family along the way.' That was life in a nutshell for him, and I so hope to pass that on to my boys as they grow up. | Bear Grylls | ||
| ec866a0 | Dont' try to own problems or faults that aren't yours. It's not a good longterm strategy. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 7e19118 | What's up with the statue routine?" Trez muttered. "Someone move your My Little Pony collection again?" | J.R. Ward | ||
| 28e1800 | No offense," she muttered, "but fucking drink." | J.R. Ward | ||
| e669a8f | But the ignition did, in fact, occur. And it changed everything. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 3e704d9 | Here was the thing: People felt the way they did and it wasn't their fault or yours if the connection was one-sided. It just . . . was. | J.R. Ward | ||
| ea0ffc1 | Sometimes kindness and love could be just as difficult as violence to witness. Sometimes, when you were on the outside looking in, watching two in-sync people was a scene from a horror film, the kind of thing that you wanted to look away from, forget about, banish the memory of - especially when you were about to go to bed for the day and facing hours upon hours of being alone in the dark. The knowledge that she would never have that specia.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| ab71558 | Sometimes gratitude could be mistaken for love. Both were warm feelings that endured. But the former was about friendship...the latter was something else entirely. | J.R. Ward |