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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
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There's nothing at the center of what we do.
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I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
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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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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.
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Historical Overdosing: to live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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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 thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
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I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
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Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)
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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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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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