Douglas Coupland Quotes
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In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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Ask whatever challenges dead and thoughtless beliefs.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
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There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now.
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The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
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'Ethan, there has to be more to my life than this.''Why can't you just be happy as a shallow cartoon glyph of a human like everybody else here?'
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Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
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We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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Is feeling nothing the inevitable result of believing in nothing? ...I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
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Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
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Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
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'I have an idea. … If Ethan and Mark are so similar, we might as well arbitrarily assign them distinct personality traits. I know-Mark, from here on, you're to be called 'Evil Mark.''
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Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic travelling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permenant residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent flyer programs at parties.
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Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.
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Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.
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'What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?''Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.'
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I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.
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The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
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I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
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I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.