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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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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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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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.
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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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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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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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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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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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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
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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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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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