Douglas Coupland: Trending quotes

Douglas Coupland trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection
Douglas Coupland: 386 quotes7 likes

“At least when you're young you're also stupid.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

“It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.”

Douglas Coupland Microserfs

Source: Microserfs

“Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Source: Shampoo Planet

“You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.”

Douglas Coupland book Generation A

Source: Generation A

“Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just
something we haul into the grave.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

“I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God

“… 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

“Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God

“I don't understand beauty.”

Douglas Coupland book Eleanor Rigby

Eleanor Rigby

“Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic travelling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permenant residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent flyer programs at parties.”

Douglas Coupland

Definitions

““What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?”
“Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.””

Douglas Coupland book JPod

JPod (2006)

“There was a fifteen-second patch of silence, then Craig said, 'Isn't it weird that Hotmail accounts still exist?' 'It really is,' said Bev.”

Douglas Coupland book Generation A

Source: Generation A (2009), p. 222

“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 book Girlfriend in a Coma

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

“Being alive is just a brief technicality.”

Douglas Coupland book Generation A

Source: Generation A (2009), p. 167

“It can be really fun to go down with the ship.”

Douglas Coupland book JPod

JPod (2006)

“Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Historical Overdosing: to live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.”

Douglas Coupland

Definitions
Variant: Historical Overdosing: to live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.

“Comics day came and went. Another shoes day came and went. And another comics day followed that — the typical production and consumption cycles that help us survice our dismal, meaningless little lives.”

Douglas Coupland book JPod

JPod (2006)

“The two of you start talking about your feelings and your feelings float outside of you like vapors, and they mix together like a fog. Before you realize it, the two of you have become the same mist and you realize you can never return to being just a lone cloud again, because the isolation would be intolerable.”

Douglas Coupland Microserfs

Microserfs (1995)