Douglas Coupland Quotes
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You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.
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Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.
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I'm trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
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What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?
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Ethan is annoyed with all of these dumb campaigns that indoctrinate millions of people into thinking they’re tough-guy free spirits when, in fact, there’s probably much to be said for following and, in any event, the food chain isn’t structured to encompass millions of non-followers.
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The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.
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'I wish my parents took good care of their grow-op.'
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Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.
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Historical Underdosing: To living a period of time when nothing seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.
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Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
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If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day.
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If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
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You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.
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I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.
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What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?
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I tell you what: I give you all of my strength - I seal it inside a little green envelope and mail it to you with hope and peace and much much love. Take all you need and take it quickly.
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Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'
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''Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere.' Marge is Anna-Louise's word describing sad, 1950s-ish diner-type places where the waitresses are named Marge.'
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In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.