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There is no shame in impulse.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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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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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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Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
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I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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