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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 have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.
Douglas Coupland
I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
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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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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
Douglas Coupland
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Douglas Coupland
And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
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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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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.
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At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.
Douglas Coupland
I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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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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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.
Douglas Coupland
SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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