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" Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. "

Douglas Coupland

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" To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot. "

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" I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store. "

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" I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible. "

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" Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. "

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

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" Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. "

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" Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again. "

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" I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road. "

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