Douglas Coupland Quotes
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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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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
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Bleeding Ponytail: An elderly sold out baby boomer who pines for hippie or pre-sellout days.
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The two of you start talking about your feelings and your feelings float outside of you like vapors, and they mix together like a fog. Before you realize it, the two of you have become the same mist and you realize you can never return to being just a lone cloud again, because the isolation would be intolerable.
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There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.
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Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
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I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.
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Fate is for losers.
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You're smarter than TV. So what?
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
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The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.
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Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
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It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.
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I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.
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Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
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Decade Blending: In clothing: the indiscriminate combination of two or more items from various decades to create a personal mood: Sheila = Mary Quant earrings (1960s) + cork wedgie platform shoes (1970s) + black leather jacket (1950s and 1980s).