
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.
Chuck Klosterman • Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Within the context of Heathers, suicide gave the dead qualities they never possessed in life. This is not a shocking revelation; suicide made Judas sympathetic, Sylvia Plath irrefutable, and Marilyn Monroe unfortunate. However, Cobain’s suicide was of the postmodern variety; his death changed the history of the living. Suicide gave sorority girls d
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But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you’re sharing a reality that doesn’t exist.
Chuck Klosterman • Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
There’s no question in my mind that the dangers of cocaine have been wildly exaggerated by the antidrug lobby. Oh, I’m sure it’s not good for you, but you can certainly enjoy it recreationally, assuming you have disposable income and you hate yourself.
Chuck Klosterman • Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
I love KISS because the world makes sense when I think about them. Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. It’s understanding the unreasonable. And although the theory I am proposing is completely unreasonable, it is something I completely understand.
Chuck Klosterman • Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
But this is something all men do: Men always want to make sure that attractive women are informed of the fact that they are, in fact, attractive. I have no idea why this happens, but it happens all the time.
Chuck Klosterman • Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.” “Maybe so,” she replied.
Chuck Klosterman • Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
society glamorizes dying in order to perpetuate the hope that death validates life?