Douglas Coupland Quotes

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Douglas Coupland

Profession : Author

Birth : December 30, 1961

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

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I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

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The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

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

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If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.

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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

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Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

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Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

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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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If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

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I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

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Purchased experiences don't count.

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

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Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

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The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

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People will always choose more money over more sex.

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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

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I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

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