Douglas Coupland Quotes

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Douglas Coupland

Profession : Author

Birth : December 30, 1961

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

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On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

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I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

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Technology favors horrible people.

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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

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Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

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Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

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If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

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I've got 911 on speed dial.

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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

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There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

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Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.

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Star Trek characters never go shopping.

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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

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