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" There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream. "

Douglas Coupland

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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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" When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended. "

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" Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares. "

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

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" I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. "

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" There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off. "

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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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" I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. "

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" If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them. "

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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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" I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works. "

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" God is what keeps us together after the love is gone. "

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" Purchased experiences don't count. "

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" High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. "

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

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" Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you. "

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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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" You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely. "

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

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" Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do. "

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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 don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me. "

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" I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible. "

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" My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event. "

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" I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder. "

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" A ring is a halo on your finger. "

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