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It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.
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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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How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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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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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
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There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more people just Google a person and get on with things.
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
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