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Way Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of…
- In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
- Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
- The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
- Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda,…
- Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to…
- just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
- 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…
- And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something…
- 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…
- ...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…
- I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more…
- 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.…
- Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can.…
- She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught…
- 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. and…
- Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps…
- 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…
- I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too…
- The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like…
- The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
- The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.
- I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing…
- Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.
- After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the temptations; you recognize…
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