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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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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.
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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.
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Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.
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Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
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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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just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
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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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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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