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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."

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

— Doug Coupland

Future

All Quotes by Doug Coupland

“Technology favors horrible people.”

— Doug Coupland

Technology

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

— Doug Coupland

Experience

“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

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Fear

“Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.”

— Doug Coupland

Family

“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

“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

“The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.”

— Doug Coupland

Alone

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

— Doug Coupland

Relationship

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

— Doug Coupland

Funny

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Relationship

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

— Doug Coupland

Future

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

— Doug Coupland

Future

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

— Doug Coupland

Death

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Famous