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
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of… — 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
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? — 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
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
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you… — 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
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
When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. — 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
The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions… — 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
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. — 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
