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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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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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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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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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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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I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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