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I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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