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" I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time. "

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" The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts. "

Douglas Coupland

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" There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream. "

" 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. "

" I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. "

" People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't. "

" Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? "

Douglas Coupland

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Forever

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

" 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. "

" Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion. "

" In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become. "

" I tend to look for pathologies everywhere. "

" I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it. "

" Purchased experiences don't count. "

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

" I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do. "

" Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea. "

" If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. "

" 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. "

" If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea? "

Douglas Coupland

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Hand

" Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them. "

" With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. "

" If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. "

" You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. "

" You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. "

Douglas Coupland

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Than

" I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country. "

" Technology favors horrible people. "

" Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return. "