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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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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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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
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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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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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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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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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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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