Top 281 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

About Douglas Coupland

These are some quotes by Canadian author Douglas Coupland Author, who was born on December 30, 1961.

I always thought of words as art supplies.

I always thought of words as art supplies.

Douglas Coupland

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Douglas Coupland

I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.

I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.

Douglas Coupland

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

Douglas Coupland

Purchased experiences don't count.

Purchased experiences don't count.

Douglas Coupland

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

Douglas Coupland

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

Douglas Coupland

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

Douglas Coupland

Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'

Douglas Coupland

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Douglas Coupland

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