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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
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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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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
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Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
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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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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
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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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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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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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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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