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Not to get scared if people ignore you. You have to wait for years, have to die. 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And I can see why it caught on—I’ve done very well out of it. My personality allows me to get away with all sorts of rubbish: riding the wrong way up a one-way street on a stolen bicycle (I didn’t steal it though; I bought it off a dodgy bloke), winking at the police as I pass, years of trouble-free promiscuity, tables at restaurants. 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I don’t want to be just a living organism that comes and goes and leaves no trace on this planet.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Douglas Coupland", "slug": "douglas-coupland", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland" }, "book": { "title": "Player One", "slug": "player-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/player-one" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "fame", "slug": "fame", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fame" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Coupland#Player_One_(2010)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:28" }, { "id": "e7c0806b-d2b1-4c3b-9662-f1d5d532d504", "slug": "fame-without-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/generation-a/fame-without-the", "text": "Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. 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I was a seaman, and went to the Imperial Café on Scollay Square in Boston to drink; I drank sixty glasses of beer and retired to the toilet, where I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl and went to sleep. During the night at least a hundred seamen and assorted civilians came in and cast their sentient debouchements on me till I was unrecognizably caked. What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? 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