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" Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. "

Douglas Coupland

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" The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will. "

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" I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. "

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

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" When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. "

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" Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity. "

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" You can never become rich unless you like rich people. "

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

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" It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California. "

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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. "

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" I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots. "

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" I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? "

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" 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. "

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" A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. "

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" Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't. "

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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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" Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. "

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" You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. "

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" If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea? "

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" Adventure without risk is Disneyland. "

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

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