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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.
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Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe. What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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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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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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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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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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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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I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
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