You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“By the age of twenty, you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Life is maybe like deep-sea fishing. We wake up in the morning, we cast our nets into the water, an, if we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this exposure to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“What one moment from you defines what it’s like to be alive on this planet. What’s your takeaway?’’ There is silence. Tobias… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“When you're young, you feel like life hasn't yet begun, like life is scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year,… — 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
![“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now. Maybe it's just because I'm with an older gang now.[...]I mean nobody even has hobbies these days. Not that I can see. Husbands and wives both…” quote by Douglas Coupland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/804/douglas-coupland-305_consumption_there-s-a-hardness-i-m-seeing-in-modern_1420139.jpg)
