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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. "

Douglas Coupland

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" The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. "

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

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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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" Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. "

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" If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy. "

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" In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there. "

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" Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain. "

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" You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. "

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" Adventure without risk is Disneyland. "

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" In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free. "

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" The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way. "

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" I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant. "

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" I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. "

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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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" You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. "

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" If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. "

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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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" Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere. "

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" In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop. "

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