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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.
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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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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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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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what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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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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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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When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.
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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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You've seen what you've seen you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
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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 person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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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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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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