Douglas Coupland Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
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.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch.
The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.
Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church ...
The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money.
I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.
We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.
For there was once a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised ever again.
Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast
as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?
as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
I don't remember where I was before I was born, why should I be worried about where I go after I die?
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
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.
Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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.
Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.
The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.
I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.