“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”
Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer
“It turns out that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony — which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. I can’t imagine anything worse than that. Okay, maybe I can, but imagine reading the morning newspaper and believing it all to be true on some level.”
— Douglas Coupland, book JPod
JPod (2006)
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