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" I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers. "

Douglas Coupland

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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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" 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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" We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. "

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" I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part. "

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

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" I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country. "

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

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" Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. "

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" Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage. "

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" It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did. "

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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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