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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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8 years ago

confessing something else to each other

"[...] you know all of this sex gossip and end-of-the-world nonsense, I wonder if they're really only confessing something else to each other."

"Like?"

"Like how scared sick they all are. I mean, when people start talking seriously about hoarding cases of Beef-a-Roni in the garage and get all…

—p.42 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
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the taint that marketing had given me

"All of this was to try and shake the taint that marketing had given me, that had indulged my need for control too bloodlessly, that had, in some way, taught me to not really like myself. Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still g…

—p.33 by Douglas Coupland
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the only reason we all go to work in the morning

"'God, Margaret. You reallyhave to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us de_serve_ the ice cream and running…

—p.28 by Douglas Coupland
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a forty-year-old man saying this

"Anyway, I remember I was working on a hamburger franchise campaign, the big goal of which, according to my embittered ex-hippie boss, Martin, was to 'get the little monsters so excited about eating a burger that they want to vomit with excitement.' Martin was a forty-year-old man saying this. Do…

—p.24 by Douglas Coupland
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isolated little cool moments

[...] it's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments. "Either our lives become stories, or there's just no way to get through them."

I agree. Dag agrees. We know that this is why the three of us left our lives behind us and came to the desert--to tell stories and m…

—p.10 by Douglas Coupland