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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

Microserfs (1995) p28 'He's thinking of quitting [Microsoft] to be a pixelation broker, going around to museums to digitize their paintings — Douglas Coupland

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos — Douglas Coupland

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them. — 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

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? — 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 just
something 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

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off. — Douglas Coupland