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" Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion. "

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" Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website. "

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" I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store. "

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" If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it. "

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" Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy. "

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" If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. "

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" Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. "

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" Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them. "

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" I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs. "

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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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" Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great. "

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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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" Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. "

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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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" 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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" Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else. "

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" I tend to look for pathologies everywhere. "

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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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" Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. "

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" If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. "

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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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" We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. "

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

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" If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy. "

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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'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds. "

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