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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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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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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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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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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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People will always choose more money over more sex
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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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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
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I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.
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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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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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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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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
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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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