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Doug Coupland quotes

Canadian Author December 30, 1961

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Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?"
Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream? Doug Coupland
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
Doug Coupland quote: "Before machines the only form of entertainment people really..."
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. Doug Coupland
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. Doug Coupland
I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not... Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have..."
I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by..."
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Doug Coupland
Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. Doug Coupland
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world. Doug Coupland
Do you realize, Tyler,' says Anna-Louise, 'the entire time we were in the forest it rained steadily and not once did we approach a state of moistness? There was a storm and we didn't even know. Doug Coupland
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. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "If you don't change, then what's the point of anything..."
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person. Doug Coupland
I thought I was going to see God or reach an epiphany or to levitate or something. But I never did. I prayed so long for that tohappen. I think maybe I didn't surrender myself enough - I think that's the term: surrender. I still wanted to keep a foot in both worlds. And then thispast year I've still been waiting for the same bigcosmic moments, and still nothing's happened... Doug Coupland
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss. Doug Coupland

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