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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

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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...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.
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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
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SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
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Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
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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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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
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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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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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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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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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