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Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, artist, and designer, widely recognized for popularizing the term "Generation X." His works often explore contemporary culture, technology, and identity in the modern world. He has influenced a generation of writers and thinkers with his insightful commentary and distinctive style. Here are 330 of his quotes:

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed. (Douglas Coupland)
In our heads we're all about 33 years old. View quote
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down? View quote
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. View quote
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. View quote
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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. View quote
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Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again. View quote
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. View quote
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Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What - suddenly you've magically turned into Noam Chomsky? View quote
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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. View quote
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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. (Douglas Coupland)
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. View quote
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. View quote
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Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. View quote
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. View quote
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God is what keeps us together after the love is gone. View quote
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Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable. View quote
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. View quote
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There is no shame in impulse. View quote
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. View quote
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. (Douglas Coupland)
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. View quote
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Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon. View quote
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Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. View quote
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Shopping is Not Creating. View quote
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Douglas Coupland

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Photo: Douglas Coupland, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: Canadian Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961
Quotes count: 330
Wikipedia: Douglas Coupland

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