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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
Douglas Coupland
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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 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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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
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I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
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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 very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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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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I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
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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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ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
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