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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Christmas Everything Makes Sad Twice

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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Another Care Cruelest More Person Pretend Really Than Them Things You

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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Assume California Culture Dig Equipment Find Future Going Gym Obsessed Remains Those Torture Up Were

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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Able Age Being Certain Certain Age Constantly Dreams Escape Everybody How Lives Look Much Outside Past Pretty Regardless

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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Authentic Because Being Failure Genuine Pure Real State

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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Better Building Construction Does Failure Finished Looks Than Then

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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

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Topics: About Around Avoid Because Experiences Families Instead Know Many Need Our Precisely Shared Subjects Talk Which

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Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

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Topics: Basically Differently Everybody Family Just Next Same Slightly

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Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Again Establish Everybody Fashion Look Never Once Think You Your

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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Anything Code Creepy Dress More Than Unspoken World

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

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