Doug Coupland
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“Christmas makes everything twice as sad.” -Doug Coupland
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“There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it.” -Doug Coupland
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“Technology favors horrible people.” -Doug Coupland
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“A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you’re past it.” -Doug Coupland
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“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.” -Doug Coupland
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“The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.” -Doug Coupland
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“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.” -Doug Coupland
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“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.” -Doug Coupland
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“If cats were double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal.” -Doug Coupland
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“Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.” -Doug Coupland
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“Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.” -Doug Coupland
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“I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.” -Doug Coupland
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“Men won’t read any email from a woman that’s over 200 words long.” -Doug Coupland
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“Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.” -Doug Coupland
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“It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.” -Doug Coupland
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“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 really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.” -Doug Coupland
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“We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.” -Doug Coupland
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“Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn’t arrive.” -Doug Coupland
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“If you don’t have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can’t expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.” -Doug Coupland
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“The future and eternity are two entirely different things.” -Doug Coupland
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“There’s nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It’s a total turn-off.” -Doug Coupland
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“I know it’s not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?” -Doug Coupland
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“You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.” -Doug Coupland
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“Forget about being world famous, it’s hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.” -Doug Coupland
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“Everybody has basically the same family, it’s just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.” -Doug Coupland
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“It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.” -Doug Coupland
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“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.” -Doug Coupland
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“High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.” -Doug Coupland
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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.” -Doug Coupland
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“We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.” -Doug Coupland
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“Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.” -Doug Coupland
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“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” -Doug Coupland
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“Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it’s not quite the same thing.” -Doug Coupland
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“If God drives a car, He’d drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.” -Doug Coupland
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“The real killers in the business world aren’t the ones who aim for the top, it’s the ones who aim for two notches below the top.” -Doug Coupland
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“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.” -Doug Coupland
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“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.” -Doug Coupland
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. – Doug Coupland
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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. – Doug Coupland
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