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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Sculptor
Writer
Douglas Campbell Coupland
Worst
Supernova
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Skis
Boots
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Plastic
Till
Sun
Goes

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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.
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Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
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I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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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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I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
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