Douglas Coupland Quotes on Fear
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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
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I have this feeling watching Jasmine - that as you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong; you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
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You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.
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We had all awakened X number of years past our youth feeling sleazy and harsh. Choices still existed, but they were no longer infinite. Fun had become a scrim, concealing the hysteria that lay behind it.
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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?