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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.
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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
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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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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
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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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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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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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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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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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