All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family – it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
– Douglas Coupland
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- Is that all time is – our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass? – Douglas Coupland
- You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again. – Douglas Coupland
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- People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. – Douglas Coupland
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- Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin. – David W Earle
- Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time. – Zadie Smith
- What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell. – Umera Ahmed
- Who’ll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want. – John Updike
- My lips have touched more bottles than lovers and I’m half a shot away from psychotic. – Denice Envall
- Is it all just a psychotic dream? What is life? – Moonshine Noire
- Is it romantic or psychotic when I say I’ll never let you leave me? – RK Lilley
- The information age is so psychotic -“ without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now. – Lauren Barnholdt
- Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years. – Brandon Shire
- So, what you’re basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family. – John Zakour
- Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation. – Matthew Desmond
- Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal. – Samuel Scoville Jr
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- Ebola then turns the insides of its host into jelly: you begin to vomit black junk which is basically your dissolved liver and internal organs. – Andrew Cormier
- A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing next to her. – Penelope Douglas
- When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won’t please everybody, but it doesn’t fall flat. – Ronald P Chavez
- Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. – Ken Kesey
- You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else. – Jim Butcher
- Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. – Martin Luther King Jr
- For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. – Gertrude Stein
- If love wasn’t conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Everybody knows that. The missing step is always the next. – scar Lopes
- ‘So what happens next?’ ‘Everybody dies, and the people who don’t get married.’ ‘Like any other story, then.’ – Sarah Monette
- A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. – William Styron
- The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. – JD Salinger
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- We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn. – Jeffrey R Anderson
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