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Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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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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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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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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At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.
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