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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
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I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
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