Humanity Quote by Douglas Coupland

“Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.”

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Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?

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Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

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“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It…

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