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

Douglas Coupland

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" Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. "

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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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" I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. "

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" My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking. "

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" I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward. "

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" Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. "

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" Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again. "

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" Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. "

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" Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. "

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" People will always choose more money over more sex. "

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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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" My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life. "

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" Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. "

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" The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. "

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" Every single moment is a coincidence. "

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" You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. "

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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 think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.' "

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" Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper. "

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" Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it. "

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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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" Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth. "

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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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" Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. "

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" If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us. "

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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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" You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. "

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