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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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A ring is a halo on your finger.
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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.
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Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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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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Shopping is Not Creating.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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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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