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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
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You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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A ring is a halo on your finger.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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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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Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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