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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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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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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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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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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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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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Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.
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HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
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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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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
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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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