9 Quotes by Douglas Coupland about time
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And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings have ever come to crystallizing time and free will into a compact physical form. Cash. Cash is a time crystal. Cash allows you to multiply your will, and it allows you to speed up time. Cash is what defines us as a species. Nothing else in the universe has money.
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Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?
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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
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Chronocanine Envy:Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.
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We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.
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Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.
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I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
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