Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Douglas Coupland
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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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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.
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It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.
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For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.
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