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...when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.
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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.
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Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
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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.
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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
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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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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
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You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.
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Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.
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Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
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I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
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The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.
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I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.
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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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I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives? How hard can it be to change gears and say, 'You know what? Instead of inventing and telling stories, I’m going to make my life a more interesting story.' (p. 177)
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Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
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