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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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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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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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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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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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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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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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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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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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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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I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
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CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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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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The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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