Books Quotes by Douglas Coupland

15 Books quotes by Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland’s take on books feels like a casual conversation about modern life, tech, and nostalgia. In fifteen short statements he sketches how reading fits into the digital age, offering a relatable snapshot for today’s readers.

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“...Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs...”

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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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People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and…

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A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys…

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In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time…

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Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be…

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I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,…

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Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to…

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The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future…

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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints…I think that, as you…

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“People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come…

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My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers…

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Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way…

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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

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Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

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And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler…

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Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you…

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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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