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" I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible. "
Douglas Coupland
Invisible
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" Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere. "
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" Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.' "
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" Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. "
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" I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. "
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" Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. "
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" Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. "
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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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" TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix. "
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" High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. "
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" With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons. "
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" We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. "
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" My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house. "
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" Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. "
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" My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event. "
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" Adventure without risk is Disneyland. "
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" You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. "
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" 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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" Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others. "
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" When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. "
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" Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? "
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" I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what. "
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" Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy. "
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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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" Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares. "
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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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" The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does. "
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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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