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

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
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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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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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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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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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...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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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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