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Away Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
- Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores…
- Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put…
- Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs…
- If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking…
- You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb…
- I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius