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Douglas Coupland Quotes

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it’s all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it Picture Quote #1

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it Picture Quote #1

I like the present. I’m always interested in new ideas, and what’s happening. I’m not nostalgic Picture Quote #1

Why are we even here [on earth], what’s our human nature? It’s precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating Picture Quote #1

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened Picture Quote #1

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there’s no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I’ve met say the same thing Picture Quote #1

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I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can’t see otherwise Picture Quote #1

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity Picture Quote #1

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context Picture Quote #1

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you Picture Quote #1

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There’s definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much Picture Quote #1

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There’s no point in having them Picture Quote #1

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TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it’s about your voice. And finally the report, what you’re actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair Picture Quote #1

It’s just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change Picture Quote #1

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability Picture Quote #1

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it’s going to disappear completely Picture Quote #1

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves Picture Quote #1

At least there’s nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn’t see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don’t know just make me want to say YIKES! I’ll take history over mystery any day of the week Picture Quote #1

Dreams don’t come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer Picture Quote #1

I thought about 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. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That’s not much, considering how special we seem to think we are Picture Quote #1

I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap’n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day Picture Quote #1

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they’ll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I’d just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear Picture Quote #1

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It’s around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me Picture Quote #1

All systems have failed me. In five minutes I’ll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins Picture Quote #1

Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach Picture Quote #1

I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn’t happen to me so often after this. I don’t want to get so used to falling in love that I get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be Picture Quote #1

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next Picture Quote #1

You see, when you’re middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied Picture Quote #1

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So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it’s all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I like the present. I’m always interested in new ideas, and what’s happening. I’m not nostalgic (Douglas Coupland Quotes) Why are we even here [on earth], what’s our human nature? It’s precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened (Douglas Coupland Quotes) My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there’s no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I’ve met say the same thing (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can’t see otherwise (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context (Douglas Coupland Quotes) Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you (Douglas Coupland Quotes) In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There’s definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much (Douglas Coupland Quotes) Discussions of generations only go downhill. There’s no point in having them (Douglas Coupland Quotes) TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it’s about your voice. And finally the report, what you’re actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair (Douglas Coupland Quotes) It’s just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability (Douglas Coupland Quotes) Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it’s going to disappear completely (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened (Douglas Coupland Quotes) 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 (Douglas Coupland Quotes) In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves (Douglas Coupland Quotes) At least there’s nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn’t see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don’t know just make me want to say YIKES! I’ll take history over mystery any day of the week (Douglas Coupland Quotes) Dreams don’t come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I thought about 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. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That’s not much, considering how special we seem to think we are (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap’n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day (Douglas Coupland Quotes) Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they’ll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I’d just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear (Douglas Coupland Quotes) It’s around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me (Douglas Coupland Quotes) All systems have failed me. In five minutes I’ll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins (Douglas Coupland Quotes) Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach (Douglas Coupland Quotes) I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn’t happen to me so often after this. I don’t want to get so used to falling in love that I get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be (Douglas Coupland Quotes) All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it’s just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next (Douglas Coupland Quotes) You see, when you’re middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied (Douglas Coupland Quotes)

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