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Every single moment is a coincidence.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Coincidence Every Moment Single

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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Citizens Forget Invention Lives Long Much Natural Penicillin Senior Senior Citizens

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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Cloning Disappear Either Going Royalty Very Well

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If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Act Impulse Kindness You

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Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Brain Cells Day Die Every Every Day Forms Hook Memories New Right Roughly Serve Strong Them Unless Up Your

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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Eagles Good Hairdo Seagull

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Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Anywhere Anywhere Else Does Else Exist Imagine Living Negative Root Square Technically Vancouver

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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Band Bands Big Big Companies Built Companies Even Failure Half Kind Like Marching Music Notes Playing Random Sounds Still Them

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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Cry Found Life Lost Magnificent Things Three

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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Commandments Conflict Deadly Seven Sins Ten Ten Commandments

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

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