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" The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will. "

Douglas Coupland

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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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" 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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" The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does. "

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" I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write. "

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

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" My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's. "

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" Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. "

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

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" I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do. "

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" Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. "

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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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" We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. "

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" The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature. "

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" I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. "

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" You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird. "

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" With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. "

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" People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. "

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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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" The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com? "

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" The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong. "

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

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" Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. "

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