Doug Coupland Quotes

• Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

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• Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise, it’s just you.

  Doug Coupland

• Salad bars are like a restaurant’s lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

  Doug Coupland

• Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it’s going to disappear completely.

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• Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

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• Purchased experiences don’t count.

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• People will always choose more money over more s*x.

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• Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it’s seemingly smooth.

  Doug Coupland

• One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

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• Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

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• Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

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• On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they’re listening to what you’re saying, you’re off the screen.

  Doug Coupland

• Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

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• New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

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• Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

  Doug Coupland

• Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

  Doug Coupland

• 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.

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

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

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

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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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