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Douglas Coupland’s nine statements on years ago offer a compact portrait of how a novelist observes the lingering impact of past eras, cultural memory, and personal growth.

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Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over…

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“[...] we started talking more about all of the fiftysomethings being dumped out of the economy by downsizing. No one knows what…

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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd…

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A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the…

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This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I…

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A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able…

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“Crawl to your God, you arrogant bastard. See if your God doesn't look at the slime trail you leave behind you and…

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“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to…

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“This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world…

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

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“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested…

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Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.…

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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we…

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Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

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“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful…

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“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical…

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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world…

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I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

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“Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. "This is so surreal," she says, "I think I'm turning into a melting clock.”

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When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't…

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