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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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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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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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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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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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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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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
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