Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“It's what makes us different from every other creature in the world - we have time. And we have choices” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future. — 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
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
If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But in that one little window of time, many lasting decisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8… — 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
“People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future… — 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
Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth?… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Do you realize, Tyler,' says Anna-Louise, 'the entire time we were in the forest it rained steadily and not once did we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Chronotropic Drugs: Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one… — 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 can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't… — 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
I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do… — 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
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types… — 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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