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Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe. What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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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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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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Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.
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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
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Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
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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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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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