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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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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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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.
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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
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