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Shopping is Not Creating.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.
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There is no shame in impulse.
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.
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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
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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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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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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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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
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