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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 person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.
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Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.
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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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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
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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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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
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what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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