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There is no shame in impulse.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.
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It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
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The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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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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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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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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A ring is a halo on your finger.
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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 heart of a man is like deep water
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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.
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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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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 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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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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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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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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