Raised in Captivity Quotes

“It is crazy,” said the nervous little man I’d followed up the street. “That’s the only thing you learn in law school that’s useful: Laws are crazy on purpose. Everything is negotiable. If you make a law complicated enough, you can apply it any way you want. You just need to make sure it’s so complicated that no normal person can understand it, unless they went to law school.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction

“He had a communications director named Hope Hicks. It’s not like this was some kind of brilliant subterfuge.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction

“Every single person on that team ended up with an amazing life, which can't be a coincidence. We were taught things they don't teach anymore. We were taught things that were never taught, ever, to anyone else. Jasper Lovelace convinced us that we did not have to live like normal people. He rebuilt our brains.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction

“Every single person on that team ended up with an amazing life, which can't be a coincidence. We were taught things they don't teach anymore. We were taught things that were never taught, ever, to anyone else. Jasper Lovelace convinced us that we did not have to live like normal people. He rebuilt out brains.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction

“Tricks Aren’t Illusions”
― Chuck Klosterman, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction

“But at that particular moment in time, he was the hottest director in the hemisphere. Critics had loved his unsentimental debut Dead Antelope, and it had become trendy to suggest his sophomore effort, Kiki Vandeweghe, should have won the Oscar for Best Picture.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction