Douglas Coupland Quotes

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Douglas Coupland

Profession : Author

Birth : December 30, 1961

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

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It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

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A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

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Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

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

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Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

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Every single moment is a coincidence.

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

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There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

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

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

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

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A ring is a halo on your finger.

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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

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The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.

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

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