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" Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. "
Douglas Coupland
Going
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Well
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" One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do. "
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" 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. "
Douglas Coupland
Think
Culture
Smiling
" People will always choose more money over more sex. "
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Choose
Money
People
" 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. "
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Like
Music
Kind
" The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way. "
Douglas Coupland
Real
1990s
Felt
" The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening. "
Douglas Coupland
Reading
Start
Writing
" Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. "
Douglas Coupland
Trick
Question
Like
" People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. "
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You
Only
Own
" Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. "
Douglas Coupland
You
Back
Giving
" Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. "
Douglas Coupland
Pure
Real
Failure
" You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely. "
Douglas Coupland
Only
Choose
Fall
" Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life. "
Douglas Coupland
Life
Doing
Dreams
" Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. "
Douglas Coupland
Indication
Unique
Uniqueness
" Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. "
Douglas Coupland
Human
You
See
" Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. "
Douglas Coupland
Famous
World
Doors
" Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. "
Douglas Coupland
Always
End
First
" In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there. "
Douglas Coupland
Future
View
Spiritual
" Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities. "
Douglas Coupland
You
Others
Leave
" I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone. "
Douglas Coupland
Me
Flying
Know
" Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves. "
Douglas Coupland
You
See
Difference
" 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. "
Douglas Coupland
Just
Me
Whatever
" North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. "
Douglas Coupland
America
North America
North
" When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. "
Douglas Coupland
Poetry
Speak
Voice
" Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. "
Douglas Coupland
Living
Out
Drink
" You're smarter than TV. So what? "
Douglas Coupland
TV
Smarter
Than
" 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. "
Douglas Coupland
Time
Decision
Space
" The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly. "
Douglas Coupland
Experience
Time
Silly
" When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. "
Douglas Coupland
Feel
Look
Me
" 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
College
Sports
Smart
" We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. "
Douglas Coupland
Software
Because
Rude