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Doug Coupland

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

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age

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

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alone

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

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alone

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

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best

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

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birthday

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.

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business

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

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business

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

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car

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

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car

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

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change

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

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change

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

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courage

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

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dating

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

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death

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

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dreams

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

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dreams

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

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experience

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

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failure

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

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failure

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

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failure

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

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failure

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

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failure

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

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family

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

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family

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

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family

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

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famous

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

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fear

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

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food

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

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funny

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

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future

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

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future

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

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future

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

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future

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

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future

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

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good

Doug Coupland

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

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.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

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

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

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

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

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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