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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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Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.
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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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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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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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Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.
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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
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The heart of a man is like deep water
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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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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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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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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