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Those were big years, big times.
— Douglas Coupland
I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
— Douglas Coupland
It's hard to get mad at Neal, because he suffers from a medical condition called total fucking stupidity.
— Douglas Coupland
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
— Douglas Coupland
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.
— Douglas Coupland
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
— Douglas Coupland
Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
— Douglas Coupland
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
— Douglas Coupland
Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.
— Douglas Coupland
It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
— Douglas Coupland
Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors.
— Douglas Coupland
Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.
— Douglas Coupland
I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.
— Douglas Coupland
Some day you cross this thin line and you really realize that we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.
— Douglas Coupland
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
— Douglas Coupland
At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch.
— Douglas Coupland
TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.
— Douglas Coupland
He'd probably no more view his life as a story than he would view his life that of a sea cucumber.
— Douglas Coupland
I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
— Douglas Coupland
The bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.
— Douglas Coupland
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.
— Douglas Coupland
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.
— Douglas Coupland
He knew that the fuel his brain craved could only be found in a proper university.
— Douglas Coupland
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— Douglas Coupland
You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos
— Douglas Coupland
If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
— Douglas Coupland
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
— Douglas Coupland
I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
— Douglas Coupland
Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
— Douglas Coupland
The whole Silicon Valley is oxymoronic - geeky and rich and hip.
— Douglas Coupland
It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon - lung-burning; mentholated and pure
— Douglas Coupland
You're smarter than TV. So what?
— Douglas Coupland
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
— Douglas Coupland
Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe."What does the 'T' stand for?"
'The. — Douglas Coupland
The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.
— Douglas Coupland
If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
— Douglas Coupland
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
— Douglas Coupland
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.
— Douglas Coupland
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
— Douglas Coupland
I'd change you bandages for you, but you don't have any and that's a big issue here.
— Douglas Coupland
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.
— Douglas Coupland
You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.
— Douglas Coupland
Leslie entered the lounge like a taller, studlier version of the Kentucky Fried Chicken colonel.
— Douglas Coupland
I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
— Douglas Coupland
What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
— Douglas Coupland
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
— Douglas Coupland
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
— Douglas Coupland
Life is so expensive.
— Douglas Coupland
Nobody ever mentions the good side of OxyContin: It makes you feel like Jesus fucking a horse.
— Douglas Coupland
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
— Douglas Coupland
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
— Douglas Coupland
I don't remember where I was before I was born, why should I be worried about where I go after I die?
— Douglas Coupland
The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.
— Douglas Coupland
You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
— Douglas Coupland
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
— Douglas Coupland
I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.
— Douglas Coupland
Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.
— Douglas Coupland
I think there is a Paris inside us all.
— Douglas Coupland
It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.
— Douglas Coupland
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
— Douglas Coupland
The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
— Douglas Coupland
It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
— Douglas Coupland
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
— Douglas Coupland
I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
— Douglas Coupland
Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.
— Douglas Coupland
In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
— Douglas Coupland
I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.
— Douglas Coupland
I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
— Douglas Coupland
Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
— Douglas Coupland
The less of a life, the more mail you need
— Douglas Coupland
I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
— Douglas Coupland
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
— Douglas Coupland
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is justsomething we haul into the grave. — Douglas Coupland
Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
— Douglas Coupland
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
— Douglas Coupland
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.
— Douglas Coupland
I think the killers get far too much attention.
— Douglas Coupland
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
— Douglas Coupland
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
— Douglas Coupland
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
— Douglas Coupland
Purchased experiences don't count.
— Douglas Coupland
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
— Douglas Coupland
I'm going to see Princess Mononoke tonight at the Ridge - and you're coming with me.
— Douglas Coupland
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
— Douglas Coupland
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
— Douglas Coupland
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
— Douglas Coupland
Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
— Douglas Coupland
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.
— Douglas Coupland
Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
— Douglas Coupland
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
— Douglas Coupland
Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
— Douglas Coupland
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
— Douglas Coupland
I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
— Douglas Coupland
To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.
— Douglas Coupland
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
— Douglas Coupland
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
— Douglas Coupland
What about life after death?" "What about death after life after death?
— Douglas Coupland
