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" Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy. "

Douglas Coupland

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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 have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock. "

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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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" Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. "

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" A ring is a halo on your finger. "

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" TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix. "

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" Nobody likes being told who or what they are. "

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" It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. "

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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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" Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. "

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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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" The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. "

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" I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. "

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" You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. "

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" I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness. "

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" I always thought of words as art supplies. "

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" It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day. "

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" For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves. "

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" I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. "

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" The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity. "

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" Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. "

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" The future and eternity are two entirely different things. "

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" We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us. "

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" I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.' "

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" I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags. "

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" Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed. "

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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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" A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. "

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" If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? "

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