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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.
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Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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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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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.
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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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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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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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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
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