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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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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.
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I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.
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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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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more user friendly.
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Douglas Coupland
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
Douglas Coupland
Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.
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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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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
Douglas Coupland
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
Douglas Coupland
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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