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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.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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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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ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
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There is no shame in impulse.
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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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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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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