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" Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage. "

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" I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. "

Douglas Coupland

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" I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. "

" The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. "

" The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity. "

" The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. "

" Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. "

" We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us. "

" Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing. "

" I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. "

" A ring is a halo on your finger. "

" I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness. "

" I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. "

" Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person. "

Douglas Coupland

You

Meet

" High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. "

" Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. "

" Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. "

" My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event. "

" I always thought of words as art supplies. "

" Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows. "

" It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. "

" If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. "

" Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. "

" People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. "

" For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement. "

" I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. "

Douglas Coupland

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People

" Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. "

" Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. "

" Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. "

" If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? "

" Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? "