OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. Douglas Coupland More Quotes by Douglas Coupland More Quotes From Douglas Coupland Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit. Douglas Coupland orbit bad-mood sometimes HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'. Douglas Coupland return-back time years People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. Douglas Coupland simplicity people firsts Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different. Douglas Coupland different humans animal Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you. Douglas Coupland forget-you thoughtful quiet-people Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed. Douglas Coupland one-day scary years I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong. Douglas Coupland heat-of-the-sun strong dream I don't understand beauty. Douglas Coupland And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness. Douglas Coupland doors people thinking Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard. Douglas Coupland warrior suicide people Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience. Douglas Coupland imaginary audience youth Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found. Douglas Coupland florida oneself found Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. Douglas Coupland sincerity certain age Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room. Douglas Coupland crazy sleep baby Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear. Douglas Coupland envy perspective giving Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind. Douglas Coupland oregon lakes mind I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control. Douglas Coupland deals thinking It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me. Douglas Coupland drunk dad writing If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. Douglas Coupland oil ducks thinking Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens? Douglas Coupland car gun eye
