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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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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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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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Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
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You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
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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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In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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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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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
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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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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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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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