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" It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you. "

Douglas Coupland

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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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" I always thought of words as art supplies. "

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" Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great. "

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" There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more. "

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" Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. "

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" I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful. "

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

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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 think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. "

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" I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird. "

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" Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life. "

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

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" Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal. "

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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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" Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities. "

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" If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy. "

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" With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. "

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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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" There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. "

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" The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal. "

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

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" In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become. "

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" I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me. "

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" You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely. "

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" Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long. "

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

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" You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. "

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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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