Douglas Coupland Quotes

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Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.

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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

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Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

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Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

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Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

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In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

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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.

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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

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Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.

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If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

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