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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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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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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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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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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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