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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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Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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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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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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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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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
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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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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.
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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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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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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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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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