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• It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.

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  Doe, Canada, Felt

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• And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.

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  Sweet, Children, Believe

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• A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

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  Birthday, Dream, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

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  Years, Pie, Laughing

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

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  Time, Time Travel, Vaccinations

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

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  Animal, Totems, Tricks

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• Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

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  Quiet People, Thoughtful, Forget You

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.37, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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 year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.

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  Years, Scary, One Day

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• If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

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  Fog, Car, Opera

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• Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

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  Animal, Different, Humans

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• 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 in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.

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  Morning, Rain, Tree

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• In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

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  Sports, Rich, Torture

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?

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  Reality, Bars, Bills

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• STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

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  Children, Believe, Facts

  1991 Generation X,'Define Normal'.

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• Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

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  Dream, Cancer, Garden

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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.

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  Needs, Our Family, Shared Experiences

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.230, Random House

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• Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

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  Letting Go, Decision, Randomness

  "Microserfs". Book by Douglas Coupland, June, 1995.

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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.

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  Clueless, Years, Knowing

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• Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.

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  Kids, Complaining, Today

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

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  Loneliness, Book, Being Alone

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

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  Love, Depression, People With Depression

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• A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

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  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

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  Running, Thinking, Smell

  "Microserfs: Tran Shumanity" by Douglas Coupland, www.wired.com. July 1, 1995.

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• If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

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  Hope, Writing, Mean

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• People will always choose more money over more sex

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  Money, Sex, People

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.147, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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