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The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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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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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
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The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
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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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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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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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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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