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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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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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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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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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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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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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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
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How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
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Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.
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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.
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And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.
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What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
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Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.
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In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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