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Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
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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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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
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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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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
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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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How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
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