Author

Doug Coupland

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“There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.”— Doug Coupland
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“In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.”— Doug Coupland
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“I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'”— Doug Coupland
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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.”— Doug Coupland
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“It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.”— Doug Coupland
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“The future and eternity are two entirely different things.”— Doug Coupland
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“A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.”— Doug Coupland
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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.”— Doug Coupland
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“Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.”— Doug Coupland
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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.”— Doug Coupland
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“If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.”— Doug Coupland
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“Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.”— Doug Coupland
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“Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.”— Doug Coupland
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“People will always choose more money over more sex.”— Doug Coupland
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“I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.”— Doug Coupland
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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.”— Doug Coupland
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“If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.”— Doug Coupland
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“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.”— Doug Coupland
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“Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.”— Doug Coupland
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“The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.”— Doug Coupland
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“Christmas makes everything twice as sad.”— Doug Coupland
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“Technology favors horrible people.”— Doug Coupland
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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.”— Doug Coupland
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“There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.”— Doug Coupland