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" We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. "
Douglas Coupland
Changes
History
Live
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" I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. "
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Want
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Words
" Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. "
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Storytelling
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" If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window. "
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Car
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" If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? "
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Happening
Point
You
" Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.' "
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More
Money
Men
" I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130. "
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Forget
Over
Well
" Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat. "
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Dogs
Possible
Worst
" If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy. "
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Go
Learn
New
" I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. "
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College
Sports
Smart
" The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top. "
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Top
Two
World
" If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. "
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Alive
Get
Being
" When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging? "
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World
Information
Recognition
" Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. "
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Tickets
Desperation
Lottery
" If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it. "
Douglas Coupland
Work
Day
Time
" In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free. "
Douglas Coupland
Happy
Broken
Neighbors
" The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way. "
Douglas Coupland
Real
1990s
Felt
" I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. "
Douglas Coupland
Lead
Dead
Amazing
" Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is. "
Douglas Coupland
Funniest
Things
Self-Delusion
" The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts. "
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New
More
Ability
" The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity. "
Douglas Coupland
Good
Creativity
My Life
" Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. "
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Indication
Unique
Uniqueness
" I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right? "
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You
Think
Research
" A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. "
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Good
Smile
Light
" Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. "
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Trick
Question
Like
" Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. "
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About
Writing
Visual
" I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more. "
Douglas Coupland
Now
Library
Week
" Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. "
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Eagles
Good
Hairdo
" If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. "
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Failure
Better
Construction
" Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. "
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Strong
Brain
Day
" Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. "
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Without
Three
Things