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Doug Coupland quotes

Canadian Author December 30, 1961

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Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, the universal narrator's voice you may well be hearing right now. Whose voice *is* it you're hearing? It's not your own, is it? I didn't think so. It never is. So I posed the question out loud..?"...When you read a book, whose voice is it you hear inside your head?" "It's certainly not my own", said Harj, and the others chimed in with the same claim."Then whose it? Doug Coupland
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen. Doug Coupland
I believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world? spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss, and Mount Mc. Kinley? is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possible sins? --Hey Nostradamus! Doug Coupland
Only pain makes it grow stronger. One sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it. The heart is perverse, and it is cruel. I hate the heart and seems to hate me. Doug Coupland
If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "-a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like..."
-a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo. Doug Coupland
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. Doug Coupland
...Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs... Doug Coupland
I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter. Doug Coupland
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Vclav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "My brain feels like a cool, deep lake."
My brain feels like a cool, deep lake. Doug Coupland
We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making flesh its deepest needs and fears; teaching machines to think; accelerating the pace of obsolescence; designing new animals to replace the animals we've erased; value adding; reconstructing the future. Doug Coupland
And yet in the end did we ever really give each other completely to the other? Do either of us even know how to really share ourselves? Imagine the house is on fire and I reach to save one thing - what is it? Do you know? Imagine that I am drowning and I reach within myself to save that one memory which is me - what is it? Do you know? What things would either of us reach for? Neither of us know. After all these years we just wouldn't know. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are..."
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. Doug Coupland
But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can. Mom... Dad... I'm okay. I am not being starved, or beaten, or unnecessarily frightened. Doug Coupland

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