Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland OC OBCis a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 December 1961
CountryCanada
Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
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.
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.
Shopping is Not Creating.
It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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.
Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.