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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. "
Douglas Coupland
Moment
Doing
You
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" If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them. "
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" I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write. "
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" Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long. "
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" If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. "
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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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" Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows. "
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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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" Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. "
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" I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone. "
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" I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things. "
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" Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. "
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Out
Drink
" Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. "
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Sometimes
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" Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do. "
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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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" 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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" 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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You
" Every single moment is a coincidence. "
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Moment
" 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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Island
Look
Colors
" 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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People
Care
Family
" 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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Failure
" Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house. "
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" My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.' "
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" Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there. "
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" The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die. "
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" No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies. "
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" Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing. "
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You
Good
" 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. "
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" I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened. "
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" To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot. "
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