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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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There is no shame in impulse.
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When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.
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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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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.
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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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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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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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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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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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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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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 is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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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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