We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“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… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
