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Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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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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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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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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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.
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I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
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What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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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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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
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