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Douglas Coupland Inspirational Quotes (203)

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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe. What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more people just Google a person and get on with things.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.
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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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