Douglas Coupland Quotes

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• Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

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  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

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  Real, Caring, Novelists

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

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  Expression, Youth, Wealth

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.19, Hachette UK

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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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  Getting What You Want, Firsts, Ends

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.56, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet? What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

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  Memories, Elephants, White

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, March 15, 1991.

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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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  Spiritual, Practice, Soul

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

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  Three, Cry, Lost Things

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• Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

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  Knowing, People, Matter

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

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  Kindness, Giving, Sick

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

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  Life Changing, Fate, Waiting

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

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  People, Perception, World

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

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  Figures, Wells, Profession

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• You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

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  Waiting, Doe, Plot

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• Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

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  People, Machines, Entertainment

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• Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

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  Adventure, Doe, Needs

  "Player One". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2010.

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• Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

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  Creativity, Fake, Three

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.151, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

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  The End Of The Day, Tomorrow, Ends

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• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

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  Running, Two, Roots

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• When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

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  Holiday, Next Week, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.

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  Remember, Used, Ifs

  Douglas Coupland (2007). “JPod: A Novel”, p.220, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

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  Memories, Believe, Princess

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• Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

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  Senior, Long, Toasters

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

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  Life, Good Life, Inspire

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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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  California, Scary, Culture

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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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  Doors, World, Forget

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