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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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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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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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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
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It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
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At least when you're young you're also stupid.
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Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
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Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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There is no shame in impulse.
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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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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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