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Doug Coupland
December 30, 1961 -
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Author
Subcategory: Canadian Author

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

   

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

   

Every single moment is a coincidence.

   

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

   

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

   

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

   

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

   

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

   

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

   

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

   

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

   

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

   

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

   

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

   

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

   

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

   

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

   

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

   

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

   

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

   

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