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Want Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
- If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they…
- If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in…
- I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside…
- Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
- We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
- I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
- It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
- A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from…
- At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW…
- Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd…
- Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself…
- Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close…
- So where do you start when you want to start your life again?
- I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't…
- Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but…
- After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment…
- Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What…
- I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing…
- After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the temptations; you recognize…
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