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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? "

Douglas Coupland

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" High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. "

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" 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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" On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen. "

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" I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away. "

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" As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity. "

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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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" If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater? "

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" Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths. "

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" The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity. "

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

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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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" Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. "

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" Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again. "

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" You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things. "

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" I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. "

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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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" Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time. "

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" The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does. "

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" Quick. Name ten dead redheads. "

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" We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. "

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" If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. "

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" Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out. "

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" Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows. "

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" There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. "

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" God is what keeps us together after the love is gone. "

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" I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags. "

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