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" High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. "

Douglas Coupland

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" I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. "

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" Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. "

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" Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. "

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" The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does. "

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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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" Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. "

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" By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else. "

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" Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity. "

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" Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. "

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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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" I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs. "

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" My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house. "

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" Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.' "

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" Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. "

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" Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? "

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" It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. "

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" I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant. "

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" Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. "

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" Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. "

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" In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become. "

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" Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out. "

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" The future and eternity are two entirely different things. "

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" We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. "

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" I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger. "

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" I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace. "

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" My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's. "

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

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" Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return. "

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" I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow. "

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