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Doug Coupland quotes

Canadian Author December 30, 1961

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If somebody wants to run for office, they had better to explain why they want to run for office. Wanting to be a candidate seems, in itself, reason for exclusion. Doug Coupland
I used the phrase 'a certain age.' What I mean by this is the age people are in their heads. It's usually thirty to thirty-four. Nobody is forty in their head. When it comes to your internal age, chin wattles and relentless liver spots mean nothing. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "You can never become rich unless you like rich people."
You can never become rich unless you like rich people. Doug Coupland
I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too. Doug Coupland
[...] and after those big strokes, what's to tell? We run out of things that make us individual very quickly; all of us have far more in common than we do not have in common. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because..."
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be..."
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "I think there is a Paris inside us all."
I think there is a Paris inside us all. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Question: If there were two of you which one would win?"
Question: If there were two of you which one would win? Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing..."
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer,..."
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
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger"
I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the..."
just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can Doug Coupland

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