“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”

— Chuck Klosterman , book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

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