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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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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.
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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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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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A ring is a halo on your finger.
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more people just Google a person and get on with things.
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I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
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You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.
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