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Douglas Coupland

Born 1961 AD; death year unknown

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01c. 1961 AD

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

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02c. 1961 AD

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

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03c. 1961 AD

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

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04c. 1961 AD

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

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05c. 1961 AD

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

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06c. 1961 AD

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

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07c. 1961 AD

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

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