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Shopping is Not Creating.

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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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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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.
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I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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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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The heart of a man is like deep water
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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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Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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