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When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

Douglas Coupland
Lying, Crops
Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.67, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

Douglas Coupland
Lying, Thinking, Firsts
"Player One". Book by Douglas Coupland, September 25, 2010.

I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

Douglas Coupland
Lying, Believe, Emotional
Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.

Douglas Coupland
Lying, Eye, Bird

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