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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: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.
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The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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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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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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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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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
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Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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