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

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

   

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

   

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

   

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

   

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

   

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.

   

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

   

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

   

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

   

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

   

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

   

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

   

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.

    Topics: Business

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

    Topics: Family

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

   

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

   

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

   

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

   

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

   

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

   

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