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Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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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 best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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There is no shame in impulse.
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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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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And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
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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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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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