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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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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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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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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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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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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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I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.
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Shopping is Not Creating.
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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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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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ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
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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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