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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."

“If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.”

— Doug Coupland

Pet

All Quotes by Doug Coupland

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

— Doug Coupland

Change

“Christmas makes everything twice as sad.”

— Doug Coupland

Sad

“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.”

— Doug Coupland

Business

“Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.”

— Doug Coupland

Love

“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

“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

“The future and eternity are two entirely different things.”

— Doug Coupland

Future

“Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.”

— Doug Coupland

Happiness

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

— Doug Coupland

Money

“Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.”

— Doug Coupland

Men

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

— Doug Coupland

Family

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Courage

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

— Doug Coupland

Future

“Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.”

— Doug Coupland

Relationship

“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

“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.”

— Doug Coupland

Hope

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

— Doug Coupland

Fear

“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.”

— Doug Coupland

Failure

“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.”

— Doug Coupland

Politics