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" People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't. "

Douglas Coupland

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

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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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" 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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" Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. "

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" Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. "

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" When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. "

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

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" Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing. "

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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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" 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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