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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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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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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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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. 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.
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I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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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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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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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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