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" Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. "
Douglas Coupland
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" The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. "
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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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" Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. "
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" Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. "
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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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" I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs. "
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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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" I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward. "
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" My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking. "
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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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" It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did. "
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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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" Fate is for losers. "
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" If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? "
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" I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. "
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" High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. "
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" I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' "
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" Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long. "
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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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" 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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" Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them. "
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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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" The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top. "
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" If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. "
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" I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened. "
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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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" My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life. "
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" My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.' "
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