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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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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.
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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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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
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As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
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Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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