Doug Coupland Quotes

• What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

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• We’re rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

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• We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

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• We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

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• We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

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• We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they’re so rude.

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• Thinking you’re immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

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• There’s nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It’s a total turn-off.

  Doug Coupland

• There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it.

  Doug Coupland

• There’s a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

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• There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

  Doug Coupland

• The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don’t take them, the universe says to itself, ‘Oh I see, this person doesn’t like opportunities’ and stops giving them to you.

  Doug Coupland

• The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

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• The real killers in the business world aren’t the ones who aim for the top, it’s the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

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• The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

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• The modern economy isn’t about the redistribution of wealth, it’s about the redistribution of time.

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• The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

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• The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

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• The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

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• Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

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Doug Coupland (125)

Birth:	30th December, 1961
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Artist, Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Doug Coupland was born in CFB Baden-Söllingen, West Germany. He is a Canadian novelist, artist, and screenwriter. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. Coupland's most recent novel is Worst. Person. Ever. released in 2013 in Canada and 2014 in the USA. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training.

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