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Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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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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Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
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People will always choose more money over more sex
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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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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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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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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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.
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It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.
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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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Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe. What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
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I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
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