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I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Alien Always Earth Felt Form Human Like Me Other Penance Permanent Reward Some State Still Time Trapped Unsure

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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Best Failure Lighting Power Sometimes

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Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Come Come And Go Fashion Frivolous Go Ideas Just Language Nature People Quickly Some Some People Think

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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Cats Double Illegal Now Size Were

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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Body Ecosystem Just Your Your Body

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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Apply Aspects Because Get Lesson Life Mad Most Other Weather You

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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Could Live Machines Martini Sets Things Three Without World

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The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Giving Hands Itself Like Oh Opportunities Person Says See Stops Take Them Universe While You I See

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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Because Dock Like Seafood Tastes Trouble

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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Ask Cartoon Constantly Continuous Fabric Miracles World Would

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

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