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

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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There is no shame in impulse.
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You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
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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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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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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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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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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
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What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
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