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With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. Douglas Coupland

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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere. Douglas Coupland

You Like Look Clothing Anywhere Gap Nowhere

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great. Douglas Coupland

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot. Douglas Coupland

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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. Douglas Coupland

World Miracles Would Would-Be Cartoon Fabric Constantly Unraveling Continuous Ask

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. Douglas Coupland

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California. Douglas Coupland

I think the killers get far too much attention. Douglas Coupland

Too Much Think Too I Think Attention Get Far Much Much Attention

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things. Douglas Coupland

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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. Douglas Coupland

Our About Shared Instead Know Talk Because Around Subjects Families Precisely Experiences Which Avoid Many Need

My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.' Douglas Coupland

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Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it. Douglas Coupland

Passion Collect Some Any Behind Meaning

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. Douglas Coupland

Age Cancer Live Our Way Mental Mental Illness Date Never Supposed Beyond Until Built Were Going Whether Illness

In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free. Douglas Coupland

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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time. Douglas Coupland

Time World Sometimes Too I Wonder Boring Wonder Same Same Time Interesting

I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. Douglas Coupland

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I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store. Douglas Coupland

Time Will Thought Single Lost Every Every Single Time Say Spent Solitary Out Inside Wear Inside-Out Somewhat Days Single Time Bump Shirt Store Public Inadvertently Grocery Grocery Store

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