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Doug Coupland quotes

Canadian Author December 30, 1961

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Doug Coupland quote: "Life is so expensive."
Life is so expensive. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Life is soon"
Life is soon Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win..."
Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even. 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
Doug Coupland quote: "Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become..."
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. Doug Coupland
You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied. Doug Coupland
Doug Coupland quote: "Keep your treasure to yourself."
Keep your treasure to yourself. 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
My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood where there's a very good friend nearby who I should be phoning. If only I could reach that friend and talk, then everything would be just fine. The dilemma is, of course, I just don't know who that friend is. But in my heart I know my mood is merely me feeling disconnected from my true inner self. Doug Coupland
With Jason I thought I'd finally played my cards right, and now I'm just one more of thosebroken, sad people out there, figuring out a year in advance where they can have Easter and. Christmas dinner without feeling like a burden or duty to others, cursing the quality of modernmovies because it's so hard to fill weeknights with movies when they're all crap, and waiting, justwaiting, for those three drinks a night to turn into four - and then, well, then I'll be applying mymakeup in the... Doug Coupland
What else? I also believe that if someone comes up behind you on the freeway and flashes their lights to get you to move into the slow lane, they deserve whatever punishment you dole out to them. I promptly slow down and drive at the same speed as the car beside me so that I can punish Speed Racer for his impertinence. Actually, it’s not the impertinence I’m punishing him for, it’s that he let other people know what he wanted. Speed Racer, my friend, never ever let people know what you... Doug Coupland
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. Doug Coupland
As brothers and sister we knew instinctively that if we were going to stand in darkness, best we stand in a darkness we had made ourselves. Doug Coupland
The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing -- a blanket -- the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water. Doug Coupland
And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees. Doug Coupland

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