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Quotes from Shampoo Planet — Douglas Coupland

born 1961 Canada

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15 quotes

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)

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)

Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

Meeting Anna-Louise was like finding a stranger's shopping list on the mall floor and realising there are other, more interesting diets than your own. It was the first time I ever felt incomplete.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

"'Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere.' Marge is Anna-Louise's word describing sad, 1950s-ish diner-type places where the waitresses are named Marge."

Shampoo Planet (1992)

You still don't know what you do well.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

I tell you what: I give you all of my strength - I seal it inside a little green envelope and mail it to you with hope and peace and much much love. Take all you need and take it quickly.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

I have this feeling watching Jasmine - that as you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong; you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

Shampoo Planet (1992)

"Grandpa, like most of the fun-loving gang who built the Plants, just wanted to die or have his brain turn to oatmeal before it becomes too apparent exactly what a nightmare he and his buddies have saddled their descendants with."

Shampoo Planet (1992)

Attribution

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