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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
Written by Douglas Coupland
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
Written by Douglas Coupland
I think the killers get far too much attention.
Written by Douglas Coupland
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
Written by Douglas Coupland
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
Written by Douglas Coupland
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Written by Douglas Coupland
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.
Written by Douglas Coupland
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
Written by Douglas Coupland
There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
Written by Douglas Coupland
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
Written by Douglas Coupland
You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
Written by Douglas Coupland
In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
Written by Douglas Coupland
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
Written by Douglas Coupland
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
Written by Douglas Coupland
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
Written by Douglas Coupland
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.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Written by Douglas Coupland
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.
Written by Douglas Coupland
Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
Written by Douglas Coupland
When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
Written by Douglas Coupland
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
Written by Douglas Coupland
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Written by Douglas Coupland

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