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Doug Coupland quotes about family

Canadian Author December 30, 1961

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As far as I can see, Janet, life is just an endless banquet of loss, and each time a new loss is doled out, you have to move your mental furniture around, throw things out, and by then there's more loss, and the cycle goes on and on. (All Families are Psychotic.) Doug Coupland
This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that. Doug Coupland
Nearly all of the Nobodies he saw were men. Women, he thought, had so many more ways to connect themselves to the world--children, families, friends. Doug Coupland
You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's..."
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "It's very strange that most people don't care if their..."
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. Doug Coupland
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Everybody has basically the same family, it's just..."
Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. Doug Coupland

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