Douglas Coupland Quotes

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Douglas Coupland

Profession : Author

Birth : December 30, 1961

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

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Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

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Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

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What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

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The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

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With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

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Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

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God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

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In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

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It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

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