Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.
– Chuck Klosterman
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- History is defined by people who don’t really understand what they are defining. – Chuck Klosterman
- Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. – Chuck Klosterman
- It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn. – Chuck Klosterman
- In a roundabout way, Boba Fett created Pearl Jam. – Chuck Klosterman
- Record sales don’t matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone. – Chuck Klosterman
- It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask. – Chuck Klosterman
- And I’m probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually. – Chuck Klosterman
- And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary. – Chuck Klosterman
- 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. – Chuck Klosterman
- And if something is only itself, it doesn’t particularly matter. – Chuck Klosterman
- It’s difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names. – Chuck Klosterman
- Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans. – Chuck Klosterman
- 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. – Chuck Klosterman
- … the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along. – Chuck Klosterman
- …but the future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along. – Chuck Klosterman
- The desire to be cool is-”ultimately-”the desire to be rescued. – Chuck Klosterman
- Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose. – Chuck Klosterman
- Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. – Chuck Klosterman
- If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? – Chuck Klosterman
- The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously. – Chuck Klosterman
- Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy. – Chuck Klosterman
- Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy. – Chuck Klosterman
- Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect. – Chuck Klosterman
- Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It’s like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds. – Mary Roach
- Give me meaning, give me soul. Give my rapture, wild, a heart that is raw. Give me a mind that thinks for itself and imagines freely. – Atalina Wright
- Soulful love, is poetry in motion. A contemplation of beauty from the deep arises and the mere struggle to express the rapture of the soul. – Angie karan
- If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. – Sydney Smith
- Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children – Edward O Wilson
- The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). – Christopher Hitchens
- the capture the rapture the rupture of a soula solo symphony – Sarah Kane
- And one bad mistake which is called love..Can drive you insane till rapture.. – shadyN
- Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me. – Poppet
- If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch’d the brink of all we hate. – William Hazlitt
- He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, ‘I am not afraid. – Mary Renault
- Sir, don’t make a bigger fool out of yourself because I promise you, if my car is not here when I leave service today . . . just pray for rapture. – Jevon L Mack
- The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture. – S Kelley Harrell
- How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia? – Sarah Mlynowski