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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.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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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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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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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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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
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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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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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People will always choose more money over more sex
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I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
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And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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