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Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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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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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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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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The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
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I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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