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I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.
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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
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If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
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It can be really fun to go down with the ship.
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
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There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now.
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Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural village - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns back to 'the present.'
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If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
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Being alive is just a brief technicality. (p. 167)
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I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.
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It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
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Ask whatever challenges dead and thoughtless beliefs.
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The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.
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In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.
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We are at the vanguard of adolescent protraction.
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We have to count. I want to be part of history. I want a Wikipedia page. I want Google hits. I don’t want to be just a living organism that comes and goes and leaves no trace on this planet.
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Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic travelling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permenant residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent flyer programs at parties.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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