Douglas Coupland
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"Douglas Coupland" (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0/Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture.

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

When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

We went from being boring little Canada to a sexy country of sin overnight? We are not used to being trendy or hip.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Your fear of change is too clearly visible in your eyes.

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.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

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

Tell me you feel this fire.