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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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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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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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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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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.
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I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.
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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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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.
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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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