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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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