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All Quotes by author - Douglas Coupland

" A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. "

" Adventure without risk is Disneyland. "

" Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity. "

" A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. "

" Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. "

" Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it. "

" A ring is a halo on your finger. "

" Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great. "

" As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity. "

" A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. "

" Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. "

" Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. "

" Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.' "

" Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. "

" Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. "

" Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. "

" Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper. "

" Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. "

" By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else. "

" Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. "

" Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths. "

" Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness. "

" Christmas makes everything twice as sad. "

" Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine. "

" Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. "

" Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves. "

" Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house. "

" Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. "

" Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. "

" Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. "

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