Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
Douglas Coupland
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I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.
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We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
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If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?
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If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
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I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.
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Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.
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Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
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The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?
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The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
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My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.
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