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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

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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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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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.
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I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
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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 ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.
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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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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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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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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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Purchased experiences don't count.
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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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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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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