Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room.
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND Maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling a... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass? DOUGLAS COUPLAND I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-li... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler. DOUGLAS COUPLAND North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. DOUGLAS COUPLAND I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without e... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, t... DOUGLAS COUPLAND You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable c... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Her hair was totally Indian Woolworth perfume clerk. You know - sweet but dumb - she'll marry her wa... DOUGLAS COUPLAND You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable c... DOUGLAS COUPLAND You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into ch... DOUGLAS COUPLAND