Canadian - Author | December 30, 1961 -
We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.
Douglas Coupland
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To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.
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The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
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We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.
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I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.
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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
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In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
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People will always choose more money over more sex.
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My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
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