"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."

-- Douglas Coupland

#California Quotes #Scary Quotes #Culture Quotes

“If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.”
“When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.”
“I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.”
“People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.”
“Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.”
“It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.”
“Often one goes for one thing and finds another”
“Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.”

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