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Her friends have become who they've become by default. Their dreams are forgotten, or were never formulated to begin with.

— Douglas Coupland Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

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The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.

Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing.

JPod (2006)

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

JPod (2006)

Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world — everyone has one and it never gets used.

JPod (2006)

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