Purchased experiences don't count. Douglas Coupland More Quotes by Douglas Coupland More Quotes From Douglas Coupland If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day. Douglas Coupland wakingorderworld Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers! Douglas Coupland fateloserdestiny Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon. Douglas Coupland disenfranchisedabandonparty Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me. Douglas Coupland sickfeelingstrying I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does. Douglas Coupland crazydarkpigs I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger. Douglas Coupland creativitykindart Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. Douglas Coupland twopastideas You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? Douglas Coupland growthmorningmean Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. It is as though the coolness that marked out youth is itself a type of retrovirus that can only leave you feeling empty. Full of holes. Douglas Coupland agefeelingsneeds You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Douglas Coupland being-oldyoung This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that. Douglas Coupland homeschoolmoving CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior. Douglas Coupland terrorismofficeattitude You can never become rich unless you like rich people. Douglas Coupland rich-peoplerichpeople Where does personality end and brain damage begin? Douglas Coupland personalitydoebrain When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. Douglas Coupland miraclecartoonwould-be When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down? Douglas Coupland armsduckswings Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky? Douglas Coupland pielaughingyears 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. Douglas Coupland exactly-isalivepeople Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer. Douglas Coupland cancergardendream Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. Douglas Coupland environmentecosystemsbody
