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Shopping is Not Creating.

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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It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.
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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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Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
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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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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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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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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
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ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
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It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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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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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
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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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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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