Doug Coupland Quotes

• Figure out what it is in life you don’t do well, and then don’t do it.

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• Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

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• Fate is for losers.

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• Failure is authentic, and because it’s authentic, it’s real and genuine, and because of that, it’s a pure state of being.

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• Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

  Doug Coupland

• Everybody has basically the same family, it’s just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

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• Every single moment is a coincidence.

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• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

  Doug Coupland

• Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

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• Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.

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• Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

  Doug Coupland

• Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

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• Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

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• Canadians can easily ‘pass for American’ as long as we don’t accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

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• Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

  Doug Coupland

• Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos.

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• Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

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• Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

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• Being asked what animal you’d like to be is a trick question; you’re already an animal.

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• Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

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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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