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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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ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
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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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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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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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You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.
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I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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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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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
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