Douglas Coupland - Microserfs (1995)

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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

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The two of you start talking about your feelings and your feelings float outside of you like vapors, and they mix together like a fog. Before you realize it, the two of you have become the same mist and you realize you can never return to being just a lone cloud again, because the isolation would be intolerable.

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What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?

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There is something about a monolithic tech culture like Microsoft that makes humans seriously rethink fundamental aspects of the relationship between their brains and their bodies – their souls and their ambitions; things and thoughts.

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... when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.

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I'm trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

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I told Ethan that I speak in an unrestricted manner to animals — things like, aren't you just the cutest little kitty... that kind of thing, which I wouldn't dream of doing to humans. Then I realized I wish I could.

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I used to always think I had to have a reason to record my observations of the day, or even my emotions, but now I think simply being alive is more than enough reason.

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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

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