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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
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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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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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
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I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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There is no shame in impulse.
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.
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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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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more user friendly.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
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