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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
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I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
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The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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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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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
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what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
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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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What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
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I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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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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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
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It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
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