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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.
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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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I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
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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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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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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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What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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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.
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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
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I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
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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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The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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There is no shame in impulse.
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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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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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