3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland It also allows you to look as though you’re not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland 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.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland 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.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people’s families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland 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.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Canadians can easily ‘pass for American’ as long as we don’t accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland There’s much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world’s probably a better place for it.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Forget about being world famous, it’s hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland I know it’s not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland 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.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland There’s nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It’s a total turn-off.
