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" I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long. "

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" Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. "

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" Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. "

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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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" With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. "

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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 had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. "

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" Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. "

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" When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. "

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" Nobody likes being told who or what they are. "

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" I think the killers get far too much attention. "

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

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" North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. "

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" Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.' "

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" I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what. "

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" Every single moment is a coincidence. "

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" Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. "

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" In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. "

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

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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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" I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.' "

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" Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness. "

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" The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them. "

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" Purchased experiences don't count. "

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" I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that. "

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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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" If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. "

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" If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? "

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