Quotes from work
The Gum Thief

The Gum Thief is Canadian author Douglas Coupland's twelfth novel. It was published on September 25, 2007 , by Random House Canada in Canada and Bloomsbury Publishing in the United States.

“The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

“If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

“Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

“A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

“Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (…) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

“Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

JPod (2006)
Source: The Gum Thief

“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

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