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Every single moment is a coincidence.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Every Moment Single

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Failure You Just

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

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Lot Having Said

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Out Children Living

Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: You Like Look

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

Douglas Coupland

Tags: You Life Your

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: People Get Them

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Things World Could

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: You Your Never

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Time Life Your

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Think Get Want

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: You About More

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Because Being Which

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

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Family History Knowledge

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

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Tags: Good You Place

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: People Who Been

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Great Nature Out

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: People Out Going

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: You People Like

Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Time Money You

I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

Douglas Coupland

Tags: About More Get

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: You Like Them

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: You Your Part

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Time Me Like

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: Time Me Like

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

Douglas Coupland

Tags: You Like Who