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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.
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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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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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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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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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People will always choose more money over more sex
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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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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
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The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
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I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
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The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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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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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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A ring is a halo on your finger.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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