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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.
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