Doug Coupland Quotes

• I think the killers get far too much attention.

  Doug Coupland

• I think that in the future, clocks won’t say three o’clock anymore. They’ll just get right to the point and rename three o’clock ‘Pepsi.’

  Doug Coupland

• I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

  Doug Coupland

• I know it’s not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

  Doug Coupland

• I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

  Doug Coupland

• I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

  Doug Coupland

• I don’t want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

  Doug Coupland

• Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it’s not quite the same thing.

  Doug Coupland

• High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

  Doug Coupland

• Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

  Doug Coupland

• God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

  Doug Coupland

• Gap clothing allows you to look like you’re from nowhere and anywhere.

  Doug Coupland

• Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

  Doug Coupland

• Forget about being world famous, it’s hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

  Doug Coupland

• Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

  Doug Coupland

• Florida isn’t so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

  Doug Coupland

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

  Doug Coupland

• Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

  Doug Coupland

• 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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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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