Doug Coupland Quotes

• Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it’s been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

  Doug Coupland

• Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

  Doug Coupland

• Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

  Doug Coupland

• Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

  Doug Coupland

• Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

  Doug Coupland

• Long lives aren’t natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

  Doug Coupland

• Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

  Doug Coupland

• It’s weird when people start sentences with ‘frankly’ – as if their other sentences don’t count.

  Doug Coupland

• It’s difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

  Doug Coupland

• It also allows you to look as though you’re not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

  Doug Coupland

• Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

  Doug Coupland

• In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

  Doug Coupland

• In our heads we’re all about 33 years old.

  Doug Coupland

• If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

  Doug Coupland

• If you’re not a tree hugger, then you’re a what, a tree hater?

  Doug Coupland

• If you don’t have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can’t expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

  Doug Coupland

• If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?

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• If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

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• If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn’t have to bury it down deep within us.

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• If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

  Doug Coupland

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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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