Douglas Coupland Quotes

born 1961 Canada

Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian fiction writer and cultural commentator. He is perhaps best known for the 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which popularized the terms "Generation X" and "McJob".

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Also known as: Coupland, Douglas

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The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.

Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing.

JPod (2006)

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

JPod (2006)

Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world — everyone has one and it never gets used.

JPod (2006)

“To be merely good enough is to never succeed.”

JPod (2006)

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

Chances are you feel superior to almost everyone you work with — however, they probably feel the same way about you.

JPod (2006)

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

JPod (2006)

Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé.

JPod (2006)

Don’t you get an empty feeling in your soul when you have a blank to-do list?

JPod (2006)

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

Player One (2010)

There's nothing at the center of what we do.

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

Technology does not always equal progress.

Life After God (1994)

I hear that God has a really bad haircut.

Hey Nostradamus! (2003)

What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?

Microserfs (1995)

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Douglas Coupland (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.