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Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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I thought about 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. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.
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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 think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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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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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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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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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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