Douglas Coupland Quotes - Page 14

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• It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.

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  People, Trying, One Day

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• We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

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  Time, Age, Who We Are

  "Girlfriend in a Coma". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1998.

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• Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

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  Time, Time Travel, Vaccinations

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

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• I've got 911 on speed dial.

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  Speed

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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.

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  Thinking, People, Elements

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• The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

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  Lonely, Real, Loneliness

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• Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

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  Prayer, Goal, Enough

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• Every single moment is a coincidence.

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  Single Mom, Destiny, Coincidence

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• Wilcox Fate is for losers.

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  Fate, Loser

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

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  Alive, Used, Ifs

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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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  Believe, Achievement, Hard Life

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

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  People, Worry, Google

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• Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

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  Sin, Conflict, Seven

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• You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful

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  Caring, Thinking, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.

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  Home, Thinking, Shoes

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• Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.

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  Interesting, Achievement, Darkness

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there is a Paris inside us all.

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  Thinking, Paris

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

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  Florida, Found, Oneself

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• Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

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  Holiday, Technology, Break

  Douglas Coupland (2016). “Bit Rot”, p.134, Random House

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• Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

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  Eagles, Seagull, Hairdos

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• Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room.

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  Baby, Crazy, Sleep

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

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  Letting Go, Decision, Randomness

  "Microserfs". Book by Douglas Coupland, June, 1995.

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• Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

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  Want, Remember, Expecting

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• Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

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  People, Monkeys, Paws

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• Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

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  Animal, Totems, Tricks

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