Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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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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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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Fate is for losers.
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The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
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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?
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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 think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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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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What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
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'Why are we drinking Zima? It’s beyond irony. It’s not funny or anything. It’s just gross. Why not just serve us jugs of Hitler’s piss instead?''Drinking Zima is something Douglas Coupland would make a character do.''To what end?''It’d be a device that would allow him to locate the characters in time and a specific sort of culture.'
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Bleeding Ponytail: An elderly sold out baby boomer who pines for hippie or pre-sellout days.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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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.