Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. Douglas Coupland More Quotes by Douglas Coupland More Quotes From Douglas Coupland The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine. Douglas Coupland gluebullspast Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? Douglas Coupland dress-codecreepydresses I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. Douglas Coupland caringpeoplethinking You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful Douglas Coupland caringyearsthinking 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. Douglas Coupland patternscreativecharacter If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Douglas Coupland halloweencourageyears ...and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart-- stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too. Douglas Coupland falling-in-lovelove-youheart Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. Douglas Coupland goalenoughprayer Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. Douglas Coupland drinkscarychildren In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves. Douglas Coupland selfdreammean Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat. Douglas Coupland meatrealdog In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week. Douglas Coupland dramasexthinking Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. Douglas Coupland toastersseniorlong I thought about 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. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are. Douglas Coupland writinganimalthinking It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. Douglas Coupland sentencesifspeople In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. Douglas Coupland torturerichsports Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. Douglas Coupland lottery-ticketdesperationtickets Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long. Douglas Coupland emailmenlong Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal. Douglas Coupland immortalimmortalitythinking We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again. Douglas Coupland soullooksway
