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Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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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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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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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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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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It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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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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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.
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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
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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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Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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