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If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
Douglas Coupland
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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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Truly modern citizens are both charismatic and can only respond to other people with charisma. To survive, people need to become self-branding charisma robots. Yet, ironically, society mocks and punishes people who aspire to that state.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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'I have this theory about smart people. If you’re smart, you’re either the only person in your family who’s smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between.'I considered this. 'I think I come from the everybody’s smart category. But they don’t apply their smarts to… larger picture pursuits. That includes me.'
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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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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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Star Trek characters never go shopping.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
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Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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As he ages and sees more of the world, he’s realizing that bad news is a part of life, and that when you have to give it, just say it and get it over with.
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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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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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If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
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At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?
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