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" The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage. "

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" I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. "

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" You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. "

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" Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. "

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" Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. "

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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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" If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. "

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" People will always choose more money over more sex. "

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" There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. "

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" I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more. "

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" I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace. "

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" I always thought of words as art supplies. "

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" Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? "

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" I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone. "

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" As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity. "

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" Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time. "

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" Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. "

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" No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies. "

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" The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. "

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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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" I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country. "

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