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Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.
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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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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.
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I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
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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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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.
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In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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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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