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I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
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what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
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