Douglas Coupland citations (194 citations, Page 3)

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Variante: 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.”

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Douglas Coupland livre 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.”

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Douglas Coupland Microserfs

Microserfs (1995)

“What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?”

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Douglas Coupland livre Girlfriend in a Coma

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

“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.”

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Douglas Coupland livre Life After God

Life After God (1994)

“You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.”

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Douglas Coupland livre Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

““I have this theory about smart people. If you’re smart, you’re either the only person in your family who’s smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between.”
I considered this. “I think I come from the everybody’s smart category. But they don’t apply their smarts to… larger picture pursuits. That includes me.””

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Douglas Coupland livre JPod

JPod (2006)

“"You're never too old to dance, Dad… and you're never too old to dream."
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?"”

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Douglas Coupland livre JPod

JPod (2006)

“Older staffers don’t even bother coming in on weekends. Where is the sleep-crazed, Pepsi-fuelled one-point-oh tech environment that can only be created by having no green vegetables, no sex and no life?
Cowboy said, “I miss the greed of the 1990s bubble.”
John Doe said, “I miss the possibility of unearned wealth.”
Bree said, “I miss the possibility of doing something Apple, something one-point-oh.”
Evil Mark said, “I miss people having Hot Wheels tracks set up in their cubicles.”
Gord-O walked into the pod. “You can’t miss the nineties, because you weren’t there. They were great. Too bad you screwed-up twits missed out on the party.””

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Douglas Coupland livre JPod

JPod (2006)

“All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.”

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Generation X (1991)

“I have this feeling watching Jasmine - that as you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong; you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.”

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Douglas Coupland livre Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Unlike Rachel, Player One has a complete overview both of the world and of time. Player One’s life is more like a painting than it is a story. Player One can see everything with a glance and can change tenses at will. Player One has ultimate freedom, the ultimate software on the ultimate hardware. That realm is also the one place where Player One feels, for lack of a better word, normal.”

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Douglas Coupland livre Player One

Player One (2010)

“I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.”

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Douglas Coupland livre Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

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