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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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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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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
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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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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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