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" My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.' "

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" Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time. "

Douglas Coupland

Face

Family

" A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. "

" Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. "

" If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy. "

Douglas Coupland

Learn

New

" Quick. Name ten dead redheads. "

" I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. "

" I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible. "

" With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons. "

" Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. "

" If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur. "

" If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater? "

" The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. "

" If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. "

" Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long. "

" New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108. "

" If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. "

" Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it. "

" Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there. "

Douglas Coupland

Everyone

Pen

" I've got 911 on speed dial. "

" There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. "

" Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house. "

" Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you. "

" A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. "

" Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. "

" For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement. "

" Where does personality end and brain damage begin? "

" You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. "

Douglas Coupland

You

Than

" People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't. "

" I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what. "

" Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. "