“If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.”
Quelle: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005)
Charles John „Chuck“ Klosterman ist ein US-amerikanischer Autor und Journalist, der vor allem im Bereich der Populärkultur arbeitet.
Chuck Klosterman wuchs auf einer Farm nahe Wyndmere, North Dakota auf. Nach einem Studienabschluss der University of North Dakota arbeitete er als Journalist in Fargo, später als Kunstkritiker in Ohio. Seit 2002 lebt er in New York City. Klosterman hat für die Zeitschrift Spin gearbeitet und schreibt derzeit als Kolumnist für Esquire, GQ, das New York Times Magazine, The Believer und die Washington Post. In den USA ist er auch als Sportjournalist bekannt, in Deutschland geht seine Bekanntheit vor allem auf die bisher übersetzten Bücher „Fargo Rock City“ und „Eine zu 85% wahre Geschichte“ zurück.
Im Sommer 2008 war Klosterman als Picador Guest Professor for Literature am American Studies Leipzig Institut zu Gast und hat in dieser Funktion auch mehrere Lesungen in Deutschland gegeben.
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“If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.”
Quelle: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005)
Quelle: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
Quelle: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Quelle: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.”
Quelle: Downtown Owl
“I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.”
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Important things are inevitably cliché.”
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (2003)
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.”
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Quelle: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.”
Quelle: Downtown Owl
“It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.”
Quelle: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.”
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Quelle: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed”
Quelle: Eating the Dinosaur
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Quelle: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality”
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Quelle: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.”
Quelle: Downtown Owl
“The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.”
Quelle: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains