Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
Douglas Coupland
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The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.
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My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
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If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
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Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
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Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.
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I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.
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Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.
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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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I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.
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I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.
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Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
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