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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?
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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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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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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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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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There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.
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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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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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