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Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

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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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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At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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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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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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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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