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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.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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You've seen what you've seen you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
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Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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I thought about 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. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.
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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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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
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Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.
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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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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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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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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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