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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Blame Chaos Just Lazy Making Person Sense Way

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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Certainly Disguise Free Free Time Handle Life Monkey Most Much Paw People Time Too Too Much

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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Cloning Copies Fine God Great Made Making Original Should Then

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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Boring Interesting Same Same Time Sometimes Time Too Wonder World I Wonder

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Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Basically Clueless Dating Financial People Seminars Speed Workshops

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I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Feels Happened Like Mind Never Pills September Take Want You Your

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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Act Become Characters Connect Creates Creative Creative Act Dots Invisible Pattern Places Plot Reader Recognition Series Setting Storyteller Storytelling Through Truths Ultimately Visible Where Writer

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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.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Absence Because Books Film Film And Tv Form Precisely Reads Technologies Temporal Tourism Tv Watches Which

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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Competence Creativity Fake Sexual You

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I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Extended Forever Happened Like Miss Never Nineties Silliness Society Would

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

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