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Back Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
- It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
- I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad,…
- This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some…
- At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW…
- I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between…
- Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams…
- I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed…
- Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.
- And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake…
- HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso…
- We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media…
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- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
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