“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
“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
“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
“The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“What I will tell you, son of sons, is this: shortly, if not already, you will begin noticing the blackness inside us… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I am by now completely convinced that my downfall in life is going to be my inability to achieve computer nirvana like… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Life was charmed but without politics or religion. It was the life of children of the children of the pioneers -life after… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Janet, life is just an endless banquet of loss, and each time a new loss is… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“...one of the biggest indicators for success in life is having a few crazy relatives. So long as you get only some… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. "This is so surreal," she says, "I think I'm turning into a melting clock.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
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… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
![“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/i/804/douglas-coupland-305_consumption_there-s-a-hardness-i-m-seeing-in-modern_1420139.jpg)
