Douglas Coupland - Life Quotes

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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

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The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

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What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?

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When you're young you always feel that life hasn't yet begun... But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive.

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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 things you thought were eternal.

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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.

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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 holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

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What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story — something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

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Unlike Rachel, Player One has a complete overview both of the world and of time. Player One's life is more like a painting than it is a story. Player One can see everything with a glance and can change tenses at will. Player One has ultimate freedom, the ultimate software on the ultimate hardware. That realm is also the one place where Player One feels, for lack of a better word, normal.

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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

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As he ages and sees more of the world, he's realizing that bad news is a part of life, and that when you have to give it, just say it and get it over with.

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When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.

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If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day.

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At twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star... by twenty-five you know you're not going to be a dentist or a professional... by thirty, a darkness starts moving in - you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy or successful... by thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing the rest of your life; you become resigned to your fate.

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