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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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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 think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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