Douglas Coupland quotes

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do. (Douglas Coupland)
Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. (Douglas Coupland)
The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
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Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day. (Douglas Coupland)
MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.
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BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
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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 return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
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