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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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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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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.
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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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Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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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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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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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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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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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
Douglas Coupland
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Douglas Coupland
I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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