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" If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. "

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" I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' "

Douglas Coupland

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" Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you. "

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

" The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves. "

" We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation. "

" Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again. "

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

" We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. "

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

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

" Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal. "

" 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. "

" I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds. "

Douglas Coupland

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Crowds

" The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. "

" No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies. "

" If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur. "

" 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

" What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. "

" I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that. "

" To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot. "

" 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. "

" Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. "

" 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. "

" I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened. "

Douglas Coupland

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Mind

" A ring is a halo on your finger. "