Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Douglas Coupland
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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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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
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I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.
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The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.
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Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.
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I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.
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When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?
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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
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No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.
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Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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