Douglas Coupland Quotes
If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
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.
The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.
What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.
Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.
I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.
Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.
Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.
Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.
Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.
