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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: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
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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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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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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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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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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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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.
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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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Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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