People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

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Douglas Coupland

Canadian - Author Born: December 30, 1961

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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Douglas Coupland

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Douglas Coupland

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Douglas Coupland

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.

Douglas Coupland

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Douglas Coupland

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Douglas Coupland

I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.

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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

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Stay away from family when you are working on a startup.

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Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

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My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.

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Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

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All in all, 18 individuals from my family are missing, including my six brothers and my mother, my brothers' wives, my nephews and nieces.

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I have made films on humor of poverty because I have lived in a lower middle class family.

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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

With the author

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

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.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Same category

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Stay away from family when you are working on a startup.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

All in all, 18 individuals from my family are missing, including my six brothers and my mother, my brothers' wives, my nephews and nieces.

I have made films on humor of poverty because I have lived in a lower middle class family.

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

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