Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
Douglas Coupland
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The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.
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Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.
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I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.
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I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
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If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.
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I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.
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The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
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Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.
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You're smarter than TV. So what?
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The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.
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By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else.
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