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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
Douglas Coupland
SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
Douglas Coupland
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
Douglas Coupland
The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
Douglas Coupland
Question: If there were two of you which one would win?
Douglas Coupland
What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
Douglas Coupland
How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
Douglas Coupland
What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?
Douglas Coupland
what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
Douglas Coupland
Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
Douglas Coupland
It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
Douglas Coupland
The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
Douglas Coupland
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
Douglas Coupland
Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
Douglas Coupland
PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.
Douglas Coupland
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
Douglas Coupland
...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.
Douglas Coupland
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
Douglas Coupland
I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
Douglas Coupland
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Douglas Coupland
