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Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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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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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.
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Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?
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