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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Shopping is Not Creating.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
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Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.
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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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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
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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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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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SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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