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Quotes from Life After God — Douglas Coupland

born 1961 Canada

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Technology does not always equal progress.

Life After God (1994)

When you're young you always feel that life hasn't yet begun...But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive.

Life After God (1994)

I realized a capacity for not feeling lonely carried a very real price, which was the threat of feeling nothing at all.

Life After God (1994)

I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.

Life After God (1994)

Is feeling nothing the inevitable result of believing in nothing? ...I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.

Life After God (1994)

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

Life After God (1994)

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -- sproing!—with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.

Life After God (1994)

Attribution

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