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" Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. "

Douglas Coupland

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" I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away. "

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" I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. "

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" The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. "

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" When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down? "

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" Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time. "

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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. "

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" If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? "

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" No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies. "

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" We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. "

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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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" I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works. "

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