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Angela is Currently Reading

Angela is currently reading

Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum

by Michael J. Fox

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Nov 30, 2025 01:10PM

“Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that.”
― Douglas Coupland

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“Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

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“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

tags: irony, life, loneliness

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“Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.”
― Douglas Coupland

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“I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

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