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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. "

Douglas Coupland

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" The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. "

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

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" In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75. "

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" What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? "

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" In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. "

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" Christmas makes everything twice as sad. "

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" Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out. "

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" I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant. "

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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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" 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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" When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down? "

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" I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' "

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" I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. "

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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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" The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. "

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

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" In our heads we're all about 33 years old. "

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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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" Where does personality end and brain damage begin? "

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" I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli? "

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" I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers. "

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

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" I've got 911 on speed dial. "

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" I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow. "

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

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