802 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Purchased experiences don’t count.

Men won’t read any email from a woman that’s over 200 words long.

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.

I was convinced that all of the people I’d ever gone to school with were headed for great things in life and I wasn’t. They were having more fun; finding more meaning in life.

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.

This was unexpected, my soul’s connection to you. You stole my loneliness. No one knows that I was wishing for you, a thief, to enter my house of autonomy, that I had locked my doors but my windows were open, hoping, but not believing, you would enter.

Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound – people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.

Gore is nature’s way of saying, “There are too many human beings on the planet, and I’m trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn’t work, but trust me, I’m cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

It was pivotal in making you but you don’t remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?