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" We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. "

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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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" Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is. "

" I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that. "

" Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. "

" We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation. "

" If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. "

" Christmas makes everything twice as sad. "

" I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away. "

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

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

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

" Adventure without risk is Disneyland. "

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

" My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life. "

" Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life. "

" Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.' "

" 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? "

" Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler. "

" When you crop the photo, you tell a lie. "

" Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. "

" 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. "

" I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living. "

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

Douglas Coupland

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" Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. "

" I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there. "

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

" Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. "