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Time Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
- The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
- Time erases both the best and the worst of us.
- There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good…
- On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time…
- Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
- Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
- Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.
- Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
- Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
- 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…
- TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
- Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people…
- 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…
- We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then…
- believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup.…
- When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the…
- Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?
- Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes…
- Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and…
- I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the…
- And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out…
- Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.
- Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly…
- Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the…
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