Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
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.
Douglas Coupland
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
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I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
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Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'
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Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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