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

Douglas Coupland

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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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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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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.
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Shopping is Not Creating.
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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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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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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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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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