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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

Topics: About Almost Because Beyond Description Feel Frightening Reading Start Things Worth Worth Reading Writing

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Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Because Brain Certain Change Existence Favour Force Fundamental Levels Mediums Others Over Parts Very You Your

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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

Topics: About Advances Amazing American Because Corner Dead Full Lead Lives Millions Millions Of People Normal Now Otherwise Out People Rocking Scientific Themselves Think Weirdly Who Wonderful Would I Think

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I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Because Disciplined Drawer Dry Good Literally Paint Painting Patient Pretty Pretty Good Trouble Wait You

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When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Actually Because Day Dumb Effects Elections Intended Iranian May Now Saves Stupid Technologies Technology Then Think Twitter You

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I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Able Because Broader Culture Days Dying Everyone Images Like Listen Lives Music Own Pop Pop Culture Read See Starting Trends Used Want Wonder Words You

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Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Air Any Because Being Could Course Ended God Google Integrate Internet Just Just Be Like Lost More Name Out Somehow Soon Up Way Will Worked Yahoo

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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

Topics: Anecdotes Because Blogging Call Diary Doing Early Early 1990S Faraway Go Had Hard Hard Work Instead Keeping Land Life Longer Now Over Stop Thing Took Tried Well Work I Tried 1990S

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It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Art Art World Because Bought Grows Importance Law Only Sort Stuff World You

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I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Because Even Just Just Because Like Mail Opening Pick Ring Rings Up Weird You

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