Much Quotes by Douglas Coupland

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

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

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

— Douglas Coupland

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

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

— Douglas Coupland

“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

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

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

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

— Douglas Coupland

“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

“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

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

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

— Douglas Coupland

“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

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