Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
Douglas Coupland
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
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If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.
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Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
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I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.
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Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.
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