Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.
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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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I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.
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If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
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I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.
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Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
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I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
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If you can control your emotions, chances are you don’t have too many.
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Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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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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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)
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Technology favors horrible people.
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
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Historical Overdosing: to live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.
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I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?