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" I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock. "
Douglas Coupland
Trouble
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" Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.' "
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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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" I think the killers get far too much attention. "
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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 keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. "
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" Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. "
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" What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? "
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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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" Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. "
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" I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder. "
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" People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. "
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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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" There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off. "
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Nothing
Funny
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" I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? "
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" I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. "
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