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A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

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I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

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Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

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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.

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If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

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I've got 911 on speed dial.

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I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

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Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

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The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.

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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

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If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

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You're smarter than TV. So what?

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There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

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Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

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Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'

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Fate is for losers.

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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

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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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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

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Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

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Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

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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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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.

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Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

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The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?

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