"People will always choose more money over more sex"

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Douglas Coupland

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“For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. Itâ€™s whatâ€™s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; itâ€™s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you canâ€™t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people wonâ€™t believe it ever happened.”
“By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?”
“I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.”
“I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.”
“Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it.”

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“Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.”

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“We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.”
“In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.”

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