Douglas Coupland Quotes on Self
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Preemptive boringness. Being one-dimensional is the most satisfying method of coping with out-of-control people - with any situation that's out of control ... Don't let people know the ideas you love, the games you've played, the places you've visited in your mind. Keep your treasure to yourself.
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Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships.
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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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Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures... And I think back over my life and I realize that my own nature -the core me- essentially hasn't changed over all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel the same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
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I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
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What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?
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At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?
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If you can control your emotions, chances are you don't have too many.