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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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With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
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Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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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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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
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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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