Douglas Coupland Quotes and Sayings
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“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
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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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“I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.”
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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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“Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.”
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“Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.”
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“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
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“When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.”
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“If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?”
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