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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
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Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe. What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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Shopping is Not Creating.
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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
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I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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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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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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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's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more user friendly.
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