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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.
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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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Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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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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The heart of a man is like deep water
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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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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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
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At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.
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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
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