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

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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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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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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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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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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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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There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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There is no shame in impulse.
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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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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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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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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
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