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" Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.' "

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" There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. "

Douglas Coupland

Life

Lost

Found

" My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house. "

" Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time. "

Douglas Coupland

Face

Family

" I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible. "

" 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

" 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. "

" My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. "

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

" Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. "

" You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. "

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

" 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

Society

Forever

" Where does personality end and brain damage begin? "

" It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. "

" If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them. "

" The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does. "

" In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop. "

" Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves. "

" It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. "

" My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking. "

Douglas Coupland

Father

Freedom

" God is what keeps us together after the love is gone. "

" 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

" We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. "

" It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California. "

" I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store. "

" Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. "

Douglas Coupland

Trick

Question

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