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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
Designer
Fashion Designer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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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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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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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
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CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.
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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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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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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
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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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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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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.
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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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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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The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
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