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You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
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There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
Douglas Coupland
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
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If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.
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I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
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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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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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We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.
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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
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The two of you start talking about your feelings and your feelings float outside of you like vapors, and they mix together like a fog. Before you realize it, the two of you have become the same mist and you realize you can never return to being just a lone cloud again, because the isolation would be intolerable.
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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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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'
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'I wish my parents took good care of their grow-op.'
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Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
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What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?
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Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy.
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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Don’t you get an empty feeling in your soul when you have a blank to-do list?
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
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Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
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The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
Douglas Coupland