Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland

…and when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them “Will you take my heart– stains and all?” and they say “I will,” and they ask you the same question and you say, “I will,” too.

Falling In Love

Heart

Love You

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…we’re told by TV and Reader’s Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change–and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

Ideas

Pain

Thinking

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…you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

Firsts

Way

Young

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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.

Happiness

Laughter

Smile

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A few years ago it dawned on me that 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.

Birthday

Dream

Past

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A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age … pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don’t want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It’s universal.

Cat

Dream

Past

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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Dream

Progress

Technology

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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.

Being Alone

Book

Loneliness

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A ring is a halo on your finger.

Fingers

Halos

Rings

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Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

Adventure

Risk

Travel

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