Douglas Coupland Quotes

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Douglas Coupland

Profession : Author

Birth : December 30, 1961

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

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Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'

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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

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Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

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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.

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Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

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I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.

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I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

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Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

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The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

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I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

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I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

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We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

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