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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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I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.
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I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
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I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
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I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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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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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
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