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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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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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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future in a dazzling way that has nothing to do with looking backward. It's been a long wait for a new novel from Mark Leyner, but worth it. Ten out of ten from me.
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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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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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.
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Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
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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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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
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Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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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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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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