Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland OC OBCis a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 December 1961
CountryCanada
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
Every single moment is a coincidence.
Wilcox Fate is for losers.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.
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.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.
I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.