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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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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 thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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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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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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Technology favors horrible people.
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
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What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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