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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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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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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
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Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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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 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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I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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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 know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
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Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.
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