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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

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You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

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I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

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Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

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The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

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I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.

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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

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Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

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What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

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I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.

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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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Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

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A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

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If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

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You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

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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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I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.

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With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons.

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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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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

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The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

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