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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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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.
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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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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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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You've seen what you've seen you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
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In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future in a dazzling way that has nothing to do with looking backward. It's been a long wait for a new novel from Mark Leyner, but worth it. Ten out of ten from me.
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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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