Douglas Coupland Quotes

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Douglas Coupland

Profession : Author

Birth : December 30, 1961

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

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My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

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I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.

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Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

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Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.

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Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.

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I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

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Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

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I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

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I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

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I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.

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Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

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Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

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TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

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I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

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Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'

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Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.

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I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

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It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

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For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.

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