"Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience."

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Douglas Coupland

#Youth Quotes #Audience Quotes #Imaginary Quotes

“You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.”
“If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.”
“I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.”
“There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.”
“Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.”
“Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's asÂ thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite.Â The Icon ThiefÂ is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complexÂ world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.”
“I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.”
“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you canâ€™t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

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