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  1. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    I wish I could say that success turns people into plastic dolls, but the truth is that I don't know any successful people
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  2. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    When you crop a photo, you tell a lie.
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  3. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    But in that one little window of time, many lastingdecisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have remained either in mymother's heart or my own - vaporized. Second, we knew for sure that Dad was unfixably nuts.
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  4. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I've come to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly and the faces of children may be achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and the food we share, there will always be darkness in the world.
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  5. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    God, I wish he and I had been genuinely close as opposed to the "Don't-they-look-nice-together-in-the-airbrushed-family-portrait close.
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  6. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    He said, "A ring is a halo for your finger. From now on, we no longer cast two shadows, we cast one.
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  7. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    Jason's father, Reg, always said "Love what God loves and hate what God hates," but more often than not I had the impression that he really meant "Love what Reg loves and hate what Reg hates.
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  8. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.
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  9. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    And when you do find this letter, you know what? Something extraordinary will happen. It will be like a reverse solar eclipse - the sun will start shining down in the middle of the night, imagine that! - and when I see this sunlight it will be my signal to go running out into the streets, and I'll shout over and over, "Awake! Awake! The son of mine who once was lost has now been found!" I'll pound on every door in the city, and my cry will ring true: "Awake! Everyone listen, there has been a miracle - my son who once was dead is now alive. Rejoice! All of you! Rejoice! You must! My son is coming home!
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  10. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    It's so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that 'the world' is mundanely 'a planet.' The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.
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  11. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.
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  12. Douglas Coupland _ Hey Nostradamus!

    Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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