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You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more people just Google a person and get on with things.
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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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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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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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How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
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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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What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
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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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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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