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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.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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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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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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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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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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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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