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" Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website. "

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" Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others. "

Douglas Coupland

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" You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely. "

" I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one. "

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

" Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75. "

" 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. "

" When you crop the photo, you tell a lie. "

" 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. "

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

" Quick. Name ten dead redheads. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs. "

" We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. "

" Fate is for losers. "

Douglas Coupland

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" Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. "

" I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part. "

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

" Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time. "

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

" North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. "