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Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.
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My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.
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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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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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You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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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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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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