Douglas Coupland quotes - page 2

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes. (Douglas Coupland)
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
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The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
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Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. (Douglas Coupland)
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
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The heart of a man is like deep water.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)
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You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.
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You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.
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Consensus Terrorism: The process that decides in-office attitudes and behavior.
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The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
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Doug's Law: "You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both."
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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I'm trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. (Douglas Coupland)
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
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I have an idea. ... If Ethan and Mark are so similar, we might as well arbitrarily assign them distinct personality traits. I know-Mark, from here on, you're to be called 'Evil Mark.
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Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures... And I think back over my life and I realize that my own nature -the core me- essentially hasn't changed over all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel the same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
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