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" I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli? "

Douglas Coupland

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" A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. "

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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 miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more. "

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" Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. "

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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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" The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. "

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" What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. "

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" Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. "

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" I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. "

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" I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful. "

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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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" Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person. "

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" I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness. "

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" If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. "

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" I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works. "

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" If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window. "

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" There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream. "

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" If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? "

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" TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix. "

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

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" Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. "

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" It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either. "

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" When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. "

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" I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient. "

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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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" Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea. "

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" When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down? "

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