Doug Coupland Quotes

• Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.

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• 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.

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• Your body isn’t just a body. It’s an ecosystem.

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• Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

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• You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

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• You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

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• You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

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• You can’t get mad at weather because weather’s not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

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• You can’t fake creativity, competence, or s*xual arousal.

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• With Google I’m starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

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• Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

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• When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

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• When we constantly ask for miracles, we’re unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

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• When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they’re going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they’re going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

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• When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

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• What if God exists except it turns out he doesn’t really like people very much?

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• 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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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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