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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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Douglas Coupland

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On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
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Douglas Coupland

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Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
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Douglas Coupland

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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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Douglas Coupland

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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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Douglas Coupland

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If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
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Douglas Coupland

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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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Douglas Coupland

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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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Douglas Coupland

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A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
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Douglas Coupland

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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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Douglas Coupland

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There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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Douglas Coupland

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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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Douglas Coupland

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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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Douglas Coupland

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Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.
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Douglas Coupland

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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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Douglas Coupland

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Star Trek characters never go shopping.
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Douglas Coupland

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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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Douglas Coupland

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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
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Douglas Coupland

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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
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Douglas Coupland

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Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.
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Douglas Coupland

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People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.
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Douglas Coupland

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My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.
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Douglas Coupland

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In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.
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Douglas Coupland

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I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.
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Douglas Coupland

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I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
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Douglas Coupland

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In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.
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Douglas Coupland

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Nobody likes being told who or what they are.
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Douglas Coupland

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I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.
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Douglas Coupland

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Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
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Douglas Coupland

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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.
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Douglas Coupland

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I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.
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Douglas Coupland

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We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
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Douglas Coupland

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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
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Douglas Coupland

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If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?
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Douglas Coupland

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If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
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Douglas Coupland

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I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.
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Douglas Coupland

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Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.
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Douglas Coupland

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The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?
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Douglas Coupland

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I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
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Douglas Coupland

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The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.
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Douglas Coupland

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The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
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Douglas Coupland

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My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.
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Douglas Coupland

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I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
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Douglas Coupland

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You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
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Douglas Coupland

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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
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Henny Youngman

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"Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing."

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Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
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Steven Spielberg

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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
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Mark Haddon

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