Douglas Coupland Citations
Douglas Coupland: Citations en anglais
“You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.”
Shampoo Planet (1992)
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.”
JPod (2006)
“Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere.”
Marge is Anna-Louise's word describing sad, 1950s-ish diner-type places where the waitresses are named Marge."
Shampoo Planet (1992)
“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?"
JPod (2006)
"That wasn't funny, Evil Mark. It sounded fake and hollow. You're terrible at being ironic, and you've been rehearsing that line, haven't you?"
JPod (2006)
essentially hasn't changed over all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel the same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
Life After God (1994)
“I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof!”
I discover I only knew a cartoon version. Suddenly there's this fleshy, demanding, noisy creature in front of me, unknowable and just as lost as I am, and equally unable to remember that every soul in the world is hurting, not just themselves.
Shampoo Planet (1992)
“Hang on a second—you already have my old laptop. Why do you want my new drives so badly?”
"Because my contract says I have to write a book, and it's much easier just to steal your life than to make something up."
JPod (2006)