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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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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.
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Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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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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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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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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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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People will always choose more money over more sex
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
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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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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
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It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
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Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
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