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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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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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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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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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The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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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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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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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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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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I've got 911 on speed dial.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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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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Purchased experiences don't count.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
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