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Where does personality end and brain damage begin? (Douglas Coupland)
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die. View quote
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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster. View quote
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It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out. View quote
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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. View quote
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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. View quote
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn't do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly. View quote
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Every single moment is a coincidence. View quote
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She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so. (Douglas Coupland)
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. View quote
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In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. View quote
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I think the killers get far too much attention. View quote
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. View quote
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A ring is a halo on your finger. View quote
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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality? View quote
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Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make. View quote
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Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you. View quote
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...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too. View quote
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. (Douglas Coupland)
Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit. View quote
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Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now. View quote
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I used to always think I had to have a reason to record my observations of the day, or even my emotions, but now I think simply being alive is more than enough reason. View quote
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Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal. View quote
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