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" I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace. "

Douglas Coupland

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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 was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it. "

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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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" 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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" Purchased experiences don't count. "

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" If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. "

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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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" 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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" 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 kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger. "

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" The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com? "

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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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" Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time. "

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" Quick. Name ten dead redheads. "

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" A ring is a halo on your finger. "

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" Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness. "

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" I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli? "

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" When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. "

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

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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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" If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. "

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" We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. "

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" I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do. "

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" When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging? "

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