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Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet

Douglas Coupland

Shampoo Planet is Douglas Coupland's second novel, published by Pocket Books in 1992. It is a thematic followup to Coupland's first novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. The novel deals with Tyler, a Global Teen, who shares many characteristics of the character Tyler from Generation X, the younger brother of Andy, Generation X's narrator. The novel tells the story of Tyler's life as he arrives home from Europe, and the fallout of this trip and beyond.

“I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.”

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“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

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

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“You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

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

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Shampoo Planet (1992)

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

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“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.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“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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Shampoo Planet (1992)

“When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“You still don't know what you do well.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Meeting Anna-Louise was like finding a stranger's shopping list on the mall floor and realising there are other, more interesting diets than your own. It was the first time I ever felt incomplete.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“We call Jasmine's room 'The Harem,' a sexy place, about which Dan never complained, even though his own possessions, his laptop PC and briefcase, for example, looked crazy in the environment, invasive and overcomplex, like Stealth bombers in SmurfWorld.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“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.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“I tell you what: I give you all of my strength - I seal it inside a little green envelope and mail it to you with hope and peace and much much love. Take all you need and take it quickly.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“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.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Preemptive boringness. Being one-dimensional is the most satisfying method of coping with out-of-control people - with any situation that's out of control … Don't let people know the ideas you love, the games you've played, the places you've visited in your mind. Keep your treasure to yourself.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

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