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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
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more user friendly.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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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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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
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And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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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'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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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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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
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