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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.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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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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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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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
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