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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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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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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
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My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.
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Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.
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What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
Douglas Coupland
Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
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I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.
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