Douglas Coupland Quotes

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Douglas Coupland

Profession : Author

Birth : December 30, 1961

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.

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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

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If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

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Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

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People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't.

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My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

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In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75.

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I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.

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I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

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In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.

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Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

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I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

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I always thought of words as art supplies.

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Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

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