"It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much."

-- Chuck Klosterman

“Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.”
“The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.”
“Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near”
“I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.”
“Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.”
“I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.”
“The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.”
“Germany is different from France. You are more Protestant, which results in a significant difference. Through the church, through Catholicism, French society was structured vertically, from top to bottom. I am convinced that it has remained so until today.”

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