Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.
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Perfectionists are their own devils.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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I'm not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair.
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I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.
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The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.
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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.
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Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
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I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
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Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
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Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.
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While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
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The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.
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A ring is a halo on your finger.
