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" A ring is a halo on your finger. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. "

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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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" Star Trek characters never go shopping. "

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" I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward. "

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" Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time. "

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

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" In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. "

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" Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion. "

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" 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. "

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" I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened. "

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" I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? "

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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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" 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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" I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right? "

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" It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. "

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" Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. "

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" Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. "

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" Adventure without risk is Disneyland. "

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" Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke. "

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" Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed. "

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" Christmas makes everything twice as sad. "

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" I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots. "

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