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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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" When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. "

" The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening. "

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

" Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. "

" I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. "

" To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot. "

" I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant. "

" Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere. "

Douglas Coupland

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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. "

" Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. "

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

" If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. "

" It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. "

" In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free. "

" Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. "

" On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. "

" The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly. "

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

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

" If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. "

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

" 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? "

" Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. "

" A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. "

" There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more. "