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Doug Coupland

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Doug Coupland is one of those voices you encounter and immediately want to hear more from. With equal ease, Doug Coupland moved between Future and Failure, finding connections others missed. Our collection includes 60 quotes from Doug Coupland, touching on Future, Failure, Money, Family, and Time — a testament to just how much they had to say. Start here and see if you agree: "Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

“People will always choose more money over more sex.”

— Doug Coupland

Money

All Quotes by Doug Coupland

“We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.”

— Doug Coupland

History

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

— Doug Coupland

Alone

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

— Doug Coupland

Birthday

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

— Doug Coupland

Car

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

— Doug Coupland

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.”

— Doug Coupland

Future

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

— Doug Coupland

Future

“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

Good

“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.”

— Doug Coupland

Age

“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.”

— Doug Coupland

Business

“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.”

— Doug Coupland

Change

“Technology favors horrible people.”

— Doug Coupland

Technology

“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.'”

— Doug Coupland

Future

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

— Doug Coupland

Food

“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

Failure

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

— Doug Coupland

Famous

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

— Doug Coupland

Nature

“The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.”

— Doug Coupland

Relationship

“I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.”

— Doug Coupland

Money

“There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.”

— Doug Coupland

Time