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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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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
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My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
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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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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
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The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
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What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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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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