Douglas Coupland Quotes

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Douglas Coupland

Profession : Author

Birth : December 30, 1961

If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.

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When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.

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I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.

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The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

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Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.

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The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

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By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else.

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The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.

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North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

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Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

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Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

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It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

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We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

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Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

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No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

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If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.

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In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.

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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

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Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

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The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

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