Douglas Coupland Quotes
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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There are still great artists in the country format.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.
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I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.
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I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.
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I'm a plodder, not a planner.
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I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.
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There was a world of mutants, men and women who were more than normal men and women, persons who had certain human talents and certain human understandings which the normal men and women of the world had never known, or having known, could not utilize in their entirety, unable to use intelligently all the mighty powers which lay dormant in their brains.
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Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
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Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.
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Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.
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TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.
