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" Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it. "

Douglas Coupland

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

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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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" I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony. "

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" Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. "

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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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" Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. "

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" The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. "

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" Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. "

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" The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening. "

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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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" My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.' "

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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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" What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? "

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

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" Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. "

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" I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit. "

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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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