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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. "

Douglas Coupland

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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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" If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur. "

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" The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. "

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" The future and eternity are two entirely different things. "

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" I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' "

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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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" Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed. "

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" Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. "

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" People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't. "

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" I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant. "

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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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" You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. "

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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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" What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? "

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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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" It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. "

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" Technology favors horrible people. "

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

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" 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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" I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow. "

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" The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will. "

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

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" Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain. "

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" Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. "

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" I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable. "

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" Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. "

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