Because Quotes by Douglas Coupland

14 Because quotes by Douglas Coupland

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Coupland’s take on “Because” lands in a compact set of 14 thoughts, each a snapshot of his observant, slightly off‑beat style. It’s a neat entry point for anyone curious about his take on motivations and quirks.

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I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined,…

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No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the…

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The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be…

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Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of…

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I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't…

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It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because…

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I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I…

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The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start…

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When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and…

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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…

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I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with…

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In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well.…

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I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking…

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Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air.…

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You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.

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“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested…

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Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.…

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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we…

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Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

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“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful…

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“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical…

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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world…

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I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.

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“Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. "This is so surreal," she says, "I think I'm turning into a melting clock.”

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When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't…

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