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First Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching…
- Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
- maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at…
- ...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those…
- 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…
- With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
- People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
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