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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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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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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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And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
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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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It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
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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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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
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I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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