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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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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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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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