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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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The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future in a dazzling way that has nothing to do with looking backward. It's been a long wait for a new novel from Mark Leyner, but worth it. Ten out of ten from me.
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
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The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
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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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Purchased experiences don't count.
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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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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
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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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There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.
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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.
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Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
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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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