Douglas Coupland Quotes
Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
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There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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I think there is a real art to walkabouts.
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A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.
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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
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My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.
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Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.
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We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
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You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'
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Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
