Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.


Douglas Coupland

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I don't understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Con...
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I think this is an alarming trend, Bethany, this whole 'passionate' thing. I'm guessing it started a...
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How did society ever function without you, little Sharpies? Your nibs have the precise amount of giv...
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I used the phrase 'a certain age.' What I mean by this is the age people are in their heads. It's us...
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Maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling...
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Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the p...
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Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowl...
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For there was once a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And s...
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And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t ...
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You like all animals at that moment, although no doubt you will one day choose your favorites. Your ...
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Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.
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Yet how often is it that we are rescued by a stranger, if ever at all? And how is it that our lives ...
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Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chanc...
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Life was charmed but without politics or religion. It was the life of children of the children of th...
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I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in ...
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I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying ...
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I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one pers...
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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to ...
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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness...
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Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowl...
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Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must ...
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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
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I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after...
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She says to me, but were we ever intimate? How intimate were we really? Sure, there were the ordinar...
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I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quit...
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I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just ...
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept wh...
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We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we exp...
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I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is somethi...
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The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be he...
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Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chanc...
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Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?
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Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot liv...
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How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? ...
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I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same bo...
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