Quotes by canadian authors

Adventure without risk is Disneyland. Douglas Coupland
Risk Adventure Without Disneyland
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. Douglas Coupland
Clown Eye Eye Contact Dressed Risky Adult Contact Making While
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. Douglas Coupland
You Enjoy Air Bacteria Restaurant Cleaner Environment Like Leaving Salad Up Soak Much Bars Lungs
If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater? Douglas Coupland
You Tree Hater Then
In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there. Douglas Coupland
Life Future Spiritual You Will Feeling Google Become Increasingly Everyone Way Dream Dream Life Some More Like Look Comfort Same Sanctuary View Your Your Dream Found Ever Street
In our heads we're all about 33 years old. Douglas Coupland
Old Our About Heads Years
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. Douglas Coupland
People Money Think Collapse Some Like Half-Life Sort Due Going Realize Radioactive Elements
The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will. Douglas Coupland
Will Baby Negation Gen Point Forced Being Against Whole
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening. Douglas Coupland
Writing Worth Reading Worth Reading About Almost Feel Beyond Because Frightening Description Things Start
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop. Douglas Coupland
Life Work Hard Work Took Tried Anecdotes Had Instead Longer Over Well Call Because Doing Go Blogging Diary Stop Land Faraway Hard Now Keeping Thing Early Early 1990s
I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone. Douglas Coupland
Me Better Three Gone Air Flying Airport Per About Civility Feel Like Know Most Make Up Than Ants Grew Cent Bases Zoo
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. Douglas Coupland
World Doors Enough Our About Supermarket Existence Forget Getting Just Being Famous Automatic Acknowledge Hard
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. Douglas Coupland
Creative Become Setting Visible Recognition Plot Characters Through Writer Invisible Reader Ultimately Truths Where Pattern Places Storyteller Storytelling Dots Creates Act Creative Act Connect Series
I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living. Douglas Coupland
Smart Living Admire Idea Know Very
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country. Douglas Coupland
Art Communication Writing Country Sense Design Our Way Projects Defines Seeing More Color Adventure New Openness Doing Continuing Began Canada Canadian New Way Want Roots Exploration Explore Present
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. Douglas Coupland
Future Will Become Rich Once Torture Recreational Sport Again
Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again. Douglas Coupland
You Lose Once Way See Someone Never Look Same Again Them
Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity. Douglas Coupland
Technology Humanity Alien Down Our Earth Ourselves Give Invented Only Never Come Us Down To Earth Therefore Expression
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. Douglas Coupland
Time Me Reward Alien Trapped Other State Earth Penance Some Unsure Like Felt Permanent Always Still Human Form Human Form
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. Douglas Coupland
People Alive Exactly Something Sure Makes How Odd Quite Human Them Really Billions Specifically Humans
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur. Douglas Coupland
God Time Money Will Politicians Interstate Collapse Determined Only Take Maintained Along Like Knows How Occur How Much Fixing Human Which Much Ages Bridge Even Damage
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. Douglas Coupland
People Wonderful Amazing Think Corner Otherwise I Think Out Would About Lead Advances Weirdly Dead Because Scientific Rocking Normal American Themselves Full Who Now Lives Millions Millions Of People
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. Douglas Coupland
Culture Experience School High High School Shared North North American American American Culture
It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did. Douglas Coupland
You Miserable Back Ancient Lifestyle Nobody Look Makes Brain Did Going Fun Helps
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. Douglas Coupland
You Animal Trick Like Question Being Asked
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. Douglas Coupland
Business People Phone Past No Idea Only Advantage Idea Major Most Answer Politely How Been Centuries English Two
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