Douglas Coupland Quotes

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 30, 1961

Topics

BookGivingSomeoneYouBackNever

I love to be comfortable, but I also love to play up the glamour.

Jessica Simpson

LovePlayComfortableGlamourUp

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

John Barrasso

BadStrikeDealDesperateBad One

I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.

Andrew Garfield

FaithPeopleMeCrisisEverything

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Jeannette Rankin

WarPossibleHumanEnemiesLarge

Don't forget to love yourself.

Soren Kierkegaard

LoveYourselfLove YourselfForget

At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.

Mary Oliver

TimePerspectiveGrowing UpThinkUp

I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

Javier Bardem

WorkGodI AmCrazySayingBelieve

I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

Dominick Dunne

LifeExperienceDramaWantNothing

Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.

Christopher Buckley

WarWorldGenerationLaughMadness

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Clarence Darrow

LifeFearFaithHopeEasyAlive

A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.

Bobby Berk

TimePeoplePaintingHouseMoodOut

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

Bob Beamon

MeFindingYouTroubleWriteMost

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