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Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
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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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And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.
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And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
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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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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
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I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
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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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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
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There is no shame in impulse.
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The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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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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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.
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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
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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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