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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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Nature
Blood
End
Hair
Wood
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
Doug Coupland
Books
Giving
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
Doug Coupland
People
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
Doug Coupland
Nothing
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Doug Coupland
Desperation
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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Courage
Day
I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
Doug Coupland
Trouble
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.
Doug Coupland
People
Voice
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
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Clocks
Future
Right
I think the killers get far too much attention.
Doug Coupland
Attention
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
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Mind
Want
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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Failure
Building
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
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Future
Will
If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
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God
Car
Opera
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
Doug Coupland
Time
People
Clothes
Hair
Listening
Saying
Skin