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Every single moment is a coincidence.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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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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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
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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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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?
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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
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There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.
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I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.
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Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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