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Hey Nostradamus!

Hey Nostradamus!
Douglas Coupland

Hey Nostradamus! is a novel by Douglas Coupland centred on a fictional 1988 school shooting in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia and its aftermath. This is Coupland's most critically acclaimed novel. It was first published by Random House of Canada in 2003. The novel comprises four first-person narratives, each from the perspective of a character directly or indirectly affected by the shooting. The novel intertwines substantial themes, including adolescent love, sex, religion, prayer and grief.

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“In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.”

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“Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just
something we haul into the grave.”

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“Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

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“We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.”

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“Here's what I think: the five most
unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and
jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.”

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“Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain.”

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“As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.”

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“At least when you're young you're also stupid.”

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“What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.”

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Hey Nostradamus! (2003)

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“I was Cheryl Anway- that has to count for something.”

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Hey Nostradamus! (2003)

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“People like that woman make it clear just how asinine it is to believe that human beings have some kind of in-built universal sense of goodness. These days I think that everybody's just one spit away from being a mall bomber.”

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Hey Nostradamus! (2003)

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“I hear that God has a really bad haircut.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Hey Nostradamus! (2003)

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“The heart of a man is like deep water.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Hey Nostradamus! (2003)

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“If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Hey Nostradamus! (2003)

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