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I always thought of words as art supplies.

~Douglas Coupland

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Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

~Douglas Coupland

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I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Cent Imagine Mean Only Other People Per Pictures Potatoes Preparing Process Research Right Tells Think Thinker Us Visual Visualise Washing You

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I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Everywhere Look Tend

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We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Beyond Built Cancer Date Going Illness Live Mental Mental Illness Never Our Supposed Until Way Were Whether

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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

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If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea?

~Douglas Coupland

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If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Characters Family Fiction Like Love Them To Love Write You Your

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I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Always Become Incredibly Invisible Looking Present Things

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

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