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Quotes from Girlfriend in a Coma — Douglas Coupland

born 1961 Canada

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

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

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

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

Ask whatever challenges dead and thoughtless beliefs.

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

Her friends have become who they've become by default. Their dreams are forgotten, or were never formulated to begin with.

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now.

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day.

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

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 hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

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