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
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but tucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos
Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.
You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.
If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
I've got 911 on speed dial.