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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

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 think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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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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Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
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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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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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