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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
- Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

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Sammy felt, that morning, with his ribs bruised and a wan flavor of chlorine at the back of his mouth, that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving.
— Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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I believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world - spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss and Mount McKinley - is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possible sins.
— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
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My heart is so cold. And I feel so lost. I shed my block of hate but what if nothing emerges to fill in the hole it left?
— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
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The harder people try to be the opposite of their parents, the quicker they become them. It’s a fact. Now just drive.
— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
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Thinking about the future means you want something
— Douglas Coupland, girlfriend in a coma
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One day we were all walking across the surface of the Moon, then we discovered a way home. Didn’t we?
— Douglas Coupland, girlfriend in a coma
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I remember finding out that the world was actually just a planet, in school in the third grade, and I remember hating the teacher, Mr. Rowan, who discussed the solar system as if it were a rock collection.
— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. In a general way we mean how our species’ excessive predatoriness has made the entire planet our prey.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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The universe is so large, and the world is so glorious, but here I am on a sunny August morning with a chilled black ink pumping through my veins, and I feel like the unholiest thing on earth.
— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
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some men never
die
and some men never
live

but we’re all alive
tonight

— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times
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I am a gay American. And I couldn’t be gayer now that the gays are on the run. Of course, I’m using “gay” the way our founding fathers intended, to mean “happy,” before it was stolen from them by the gays, just like they stole their tights, wigs, and codpieces.
— Stephen Colbert, I Am America (And So Can You!)
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