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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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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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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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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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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
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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.
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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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