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

— Doug Coupland

Family

All Quotes by Doug Coupland

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

— Doug Coupland

Funny

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

— Doug Coupland

Food

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

— Doug Coupland

Future

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

— Doug Coupland

Politics

“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

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Alone

“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 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

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

— Doug Coupland

Relationship

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

— Doug Coupland

Men

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

— Doug Coupland

Dating

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

— Doug Coupland

Fear

“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

“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.”

— Doug Coupland

Car

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Family

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Death

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

— Doug Coupland

Courage