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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."

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

— Doug Coupland

Failure

All Quotes by Doug Coupland

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Fear

“Christmas makes everything twice as sad.”

— Doug Coupland

Sad

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

— Doug Coupland

Failure

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

— 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

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

— Doug Coupland

Alone

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

— Doug Coupland

Money

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

— Doug Coupland

Politics

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

— Doug Coupland

Pet

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

— Doug Coupland

Love

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

— Doug Coupland

Experience

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Famous

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

— Doug Coupland

Failure

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

— Doug Coupland

Dating

“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

“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.”

— Doug Coupland

Good

“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

“Technology favors horrible people.”

— Doug Coupland

Technology