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Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Blot Children Clowns Drink Living Out Terrifying

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Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Get Good-Looking Handed People Strong Teeth Them Things

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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Arms Donald Donald Duck Down Duck He His Traded Trading Up Wings

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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Figure Life Out Then Well You

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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Capacity Carry Feeling Lonely Nothing Price Real Very

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When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Crop Lie Photo Tell You

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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Brain Down Fingers Imagining Inner Juice Negatives Orange Part Peel Process Running Smell Soft Thinking Try You Your

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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Animal Beings Birds Change Different Different Place Human Human Beings Moving Only Place Quite Same Same Thing Simply Thing Thinks Who

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Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Accidentally American Apologize Canadians Car Easily Hit Long Measurements Metric Pass Use

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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Being Course Day Every Her His Human Human Being Least Percent Problem Radar See Sucking Up You

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

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