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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

~Douglas Coupland

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I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Happy Myself Pleasurable Say Treat Write

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Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Actually Being Find Games Good Helping Interesting Listen Nothing Prepare Programming Rubbish Say Stop Them They Say Us Whatever Wish You

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I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

~Douglas Coupland

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My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Add Also Being Books Connect Encountered Experience First Friends Job Life Lifelong Like Made Many Meet Mixed My Own New New People Own Part People Readers Smart Suppose Terrific Them Way Whom Would Writer

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'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Acknowledge Been Collectively Defines Felt Individuals Inhabit Mental Never Now Smarter Somehow State Stupider Stupidity Wherein

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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

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Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

~Douglas Coupland

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Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'

~Douglas Coupland

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Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

~Douglas Coupland

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

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