802 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

You’ve seen what you’ve seen; you’ve felt what you’ve felt. Ideology is for people who don’t trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

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.

You can’t fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.

Your Joan of Arcs and Supermans don’t come around too often. Mostly, the world is made up of people like me, plodding along. It’s what most people do – plod, plod, plod. While it kills me to come to grips with the fact that I’m like everyone else, that pain is outweighed by the comfort I get from being a member of the human race.

Los Angelenos dress like they’ve been focus-grouped.

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I’m Krazy-Glue’ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Dreams don’t come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

God, I wish he and I had been genuinely close as opposed to the “Don’t-they-look-nice-together-in-the-airbrushed-family-portrait close.