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Doug Coupland - From the Adventure category:
Adventure without risk is Disneyland. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Aging category:
In our heads we're all about 33 years old. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Anxiety category:
Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Architecture category:
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Belief category:
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. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Books category:
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Change category:
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Competence category:
You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Complaining category:
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Depression category:
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Dreams category:
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Eccentricity category:
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Emotion category:
There are three things we cry about in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Environment category:
Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Failure category:
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Fashion category:
Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Future category:
Star Trek characters never go shopping. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Gender category:
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Goals category:
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Humanity category:
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Immortality category:
Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Light category:
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Loneliness category:
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Memory category:
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to pre-existing cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Miracles category:
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Miracles category:
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. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Opposites category:
The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Pets category:
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Profession category:
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Questions category:
Where does personality end and brain damage begin? (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Questions category:
If your life had lyrics, would they be any good? (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Religion category:
God is what keeps us together after the love is gone. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Religion category:
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Routine category:
Most people can't handle a structureless life. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Spirituality category:
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. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Time category:
Every single moment is a coincidence. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Uniqueness category:
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. (Doug Coupland)
Doug Coupland - From the Words category:
It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. (Doug Coupland)
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