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" Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. "

Douglas Coupland

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" With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons. "

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" The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. "

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" People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't. "

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" I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write. "

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" I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. "

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" The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top. "

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" I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness. "

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" If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them. "

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" The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die. "

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" Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others. "

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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. "

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" I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone. "

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" 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. "

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" One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do. "

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" We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. "

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" If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. "

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" You're smarter than TV. So what? "

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" I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part. "

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" Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long. "

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" A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. "

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" There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more. "

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" Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy. "

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" I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird. "

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" If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it. "

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" The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong. "

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" Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? "

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" I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130. "

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" Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. "

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" Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal. "

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