believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world. - Douglas Coupland
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
- Douglas Coupland
My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of gi… - Douglas Coupland
My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of gi…
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth. - Douglas Coupland
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. - Douglas Coupland
There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
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 late… - Douglas Coupland
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 late…
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it. - Douglas Coupland
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. - Douglas Coupland
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? What one moment for you defin… - Douglas Coupland
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? What one moment for you defin…
You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again. - Douglas Coupland
You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
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