Douglas Coupland - Person Quotes

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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.

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What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?

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I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

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I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn't do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.

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If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

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I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof!' I discover I only knew a cartoon version. Suddenly there's this fleshy, demanding, noisy creature in front of me, unknowable and just as lost as I am, and equally unable to remember that every soul in the world is hurting, not just themselves.

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If you're an incredibly famous rich person who does more in one day than I do in a month, does your perception of time's passing go slower or faster than it does for me?

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Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.

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A girl can't control who will and who won't fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully… awkward.

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I have this theory about smart people. If you're smart, you're either the only person in your family who's smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between.
I considered this. I think I come from the everybody's smart category. But they don't apply their smarts to… larger picture pursuits. That includes me.

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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

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