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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
Artist
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more user friendly.
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PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
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I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe. What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
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ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
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