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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Alive Billions Exactly How Human Humans Makes Odd People Quite Really Something Specifically Sure Them

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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Achievement Along Beings Believe Better Come Crowning Earth Find Hard Human Human Beings Life Something Than Us

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On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: By The Time Clothes Hair Listening Look Off People Saying Screen Skin Then Time Tv You Your

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Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Begin Brain Damage Does End Personality Where

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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Any Email Long Men Over Read Woman Words

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Purchased experiences don't count.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Count Experiences Purchased

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Technology favors horrible people.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Favors Horrible People Technology

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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Bad Ever Good Lasts Long Nothing Very

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Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Everything Feels Grave Haul Just Just Something Life Something Sometimes

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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Acknowledge Automatic Being Doors Enough Existence Famous Forget Getting Hard Just Our Supermarket World

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

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