Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.
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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
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I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
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Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.
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I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.
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In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.
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You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store.
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My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.
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I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.
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Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.
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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
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Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
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Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.
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If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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Star Trek characters never go shopping.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
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Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
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Clique Maintenance: The need of one generation to see the generation following it as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego: Kids today do nothing. They’re so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.