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 don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Douglas Coupland

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

Douglas Coupland

I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.

Douglas Coupland

My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.

Douglas Coupland

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

Douglas Coupland

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

Douglas Coupland

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Douglas Coupland

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Douglas Coupland

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

Douglas Coupland

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

Douglas Coupland

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