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" I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is. "
Douglas Coupland
Present
Thought
You
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" I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right? "
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" It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either. "
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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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" Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return. "
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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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" People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. "
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" I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country. "
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" I tend to look for pathologies everywhere. "
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" Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. "
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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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" We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. "
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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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" When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended. "
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" I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more. "
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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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" Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there. "
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" Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long. "
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" If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea? "
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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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" A ring is a halo on your finger. "
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" Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. "
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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 grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone. "
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" Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.' "
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" If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. "
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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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