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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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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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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.
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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 can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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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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You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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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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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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