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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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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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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 Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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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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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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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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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
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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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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.
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