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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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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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People will always choose more money over more sex
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...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.
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Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
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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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As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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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 am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
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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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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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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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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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