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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. (Douglas Coupland)
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. View quote
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. View quote
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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. View quote
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The Sun is Your Enemy. View quote
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Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain. View quote
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If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room. View quote
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You're never too old to dance, Dad...and you're never too old to dream. View quote
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I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof! View quote
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress. View quote
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The past is a finite resource. (Douglas Coupland)
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. View quote
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. View quote
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger. View quote
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities. View quote
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things. View quote
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Time erases both the best and the worst of us. View quote
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Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else. View quote
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I hereby declare you Generation A, as much as the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago. View quote
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I have this theory about smart people. If you're smart, you're either the only person in your family who's smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between. View quote
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Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere. (Douglas Coupland)
Just go and feed yourselves on a wide array of products containing high-fructose corn sugar. Zheesh. View quote
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Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures... And I think back over my life and I realize that my own nature -the core me. View quote
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Hang on a second-you already have my old laptop. Why do you want my new drives so badly? View quote
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If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? View quote
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