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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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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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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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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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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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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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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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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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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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A ring is a halo on your finger.
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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