Besides creating books, nonfiction as well as narratives have likewise created Coupland recognized works in layout and also aesthetic arts, which is actually what he was trained inside. His very first novel from 1991 Generation X that got worldwide recognition helped to spread out the principles such as McJob as well as Generation X.
He currently has actually published thirteen books, a collection of short stories, seven nonfiction publications as well as a variety of remarkable works and screenplays for movie and tv. Coupland has been referred to as "... probably today's most talented interpreter of American mass culture" and "among the wonderful satirists of consumerism." A special function of Coupland's stories is their synthesis of growth novels portraying personalities which are wound completely right into popular culture. He was born upon a Canadian military base in Germany, yet relocated 1965 to Canada.
Our collection contains 105 quotes who is written / told by Doug, under the main topics: Pet - Family.
"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long"
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away"
"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life"
"I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements"
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me"
"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes"
"Adventure without risk is Disneyland"
"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it"
"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture"
"When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?"
"Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat"
"Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal"
"There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off"
"There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream"
"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"
"Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation"
"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure"
"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters"
"Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found"
"Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it"
"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out"
"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal"
"Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people"
"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless"
"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you"
"Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth"
"Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky"
"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin"
"If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?"
"If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?"
"I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs"
"Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life"
"Fate is for losers"
"You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself"
"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie"
"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon"
"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"
"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself"
"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member"
"Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely"
"One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do"
"Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries"
"Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want"
"It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either"
"If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?"
"I've got 911 on speed dial"
"Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time"
"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without"
"Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness"
"Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next"
