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Quick. Name ten dead redheads. (Douglas Coupland)
When you crop the photo, you tell a lie. View quote
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Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal. View quote
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock. View quote
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. View quote
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. View quote
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere. View quote
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Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. View quote
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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. View quote
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life. View quote
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There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. (Douglas Coupland)
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. View quote
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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. View quote
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If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. View quote
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Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. View quote
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. View quote
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There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream. View quote
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. View quote
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. View quote
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What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? View quote
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A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. (Douglas Coupland)
The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. View quote
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If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. View quote
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With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. View quote
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Technology favors horrible people. View quote
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