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There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off. (Douglas Coupland)
I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli? View quote
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. View quote
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. View quote
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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. View quote
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The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. View quote
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... after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? ... What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet? View quote
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I don't want dainty little moments of insight ... View quote
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Meeting Anna-Louise was like finding a stranger's shopping list on the mall floor and realising there are other, more interesting diets than your own. It was the first time I ever felt incomplete. View quote
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You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries. View quote
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When you're young you always feel that life hasn't yet begun...But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. (Douglas Coupland)
...when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together. View quote
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Her friends have become who they've become by default. Their dreams are forgotten, or were never formulated to begin with. View quote
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There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now. View quote
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People like that woman make it clear just how asinine it is to believe that human beings have some kind of in-built universal sense of goodness. These days I think that everybody's just one spit away from being a mall bomber. View quote
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Why are we drinking Zima? It's beyond irony. It's not funny or anything. It's just gross. Why not just serve us jugs of Hitler's piss instead?” "Drinking Zima is something Douglas Coupland would make a character do.” "To what end?” "It'd be a device that would allow him to locate the characters in time and a specific sort of culture. View quote
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You're never too old to dance, Dad...and you're never too old to dream." "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real? View quote
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There was a fifteen-second patch of silence, then Craig said, 'Isn't it weird that Hotmail accounts still exist?' 'It really is,' said Bev. View quote
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I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened. View quote
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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me. View quote
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long. (Douglas Coupland)
I've got 911 on speed dial. View quote
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people. View quote
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. View quote
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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long. View quote
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