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I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

Douglas Coupland
Hurt, Philosophy, Soul
Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.

Douglas Coupland
Hurt, People, Luck
Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

Douglas Coupland
Hurt, Emotional, Safety
"Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.

Douglas Coupland
Sweet, Hurt, Cameras
Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.28, Hachette UK

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