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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. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. "

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

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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 with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. "

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" A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. "

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" Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. "

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" Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. "

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

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" When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down? "

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" Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out. "

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" The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them. "

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" The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time. "

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