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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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ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
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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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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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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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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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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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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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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
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I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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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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Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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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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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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