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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: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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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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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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Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more people just Google a person and get on with things.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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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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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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