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" New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108. "

Douglas Coupland

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" I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there. "

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

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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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" I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable. "

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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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" Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. "

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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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" Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house. "

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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. "

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" Fate is for losers. "

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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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" Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person. "

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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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" Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. "

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" Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. "

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" I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away. "

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" The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. "

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