It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I guess the thing about exposing your heart is that people may not even notice it. Like a flop movie. Or they'll… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother -… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“It starts out young - you try not to be different just to survive - you try to be just like everyone… — 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
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking… — 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
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