"There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it."
-Doug Coupland
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"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."
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"Technology favors horrible people."
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"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."
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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
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"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."
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