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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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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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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.
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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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