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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.
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Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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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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The heart of a man is like deep water
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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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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
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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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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
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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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You've seen what you've seen you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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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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