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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: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.
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Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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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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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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Technology favors horrible people.
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In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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You've seen what you've seen you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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People will always choose more money over more sex
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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