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
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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.
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
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.
Technology favors horrible people.
The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
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.