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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.
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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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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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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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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
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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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Technology favors horrible people.
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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.
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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.
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