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: Family - Pet.
"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes"
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away"
"Adventure without risk is Disneyland"
"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long"
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me"
"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing"
"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"
"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos"
"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships"
"A ring is a halo on your finger"
"You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young"
"You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely"
"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"
"The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you"
"Quick. Name ten dead redheads"
"Every single moment is a coincidence"
"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"
"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
"I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened"
"Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence"
"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being"
"Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo"
"Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car"
"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations"
"If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal"
"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own"
"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"
"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life"
"Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy"
"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen"
"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you"
"If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window"
"I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?"
"I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along"
"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"
