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281 quotes by Douglas Coupland

Website www.coupland.com Douglas Coupland (pronounced KOHP-lənd) OC OBC (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, two collections...
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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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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously... →

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Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV... →

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I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.

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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

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It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you... →

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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

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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... →

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