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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7aef1cf | Nobody ever mentions the good side of OxyContin: It makes you feel like Jesus fucking a horse. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 98d7555 | if sophistication is the ability to put a smile on one's existential desperation, then the fear of a glossy sheen is actually the fear that surface equals depth. *** [...] we wake up, we do something--anything--we go to sleep, and we repeat it about 22,000 more times, and then we die. *** Part of our new boredom is that our brain doesn't have any downtime. Even the smallest amount of time not being engaged creates a spooky sensatino that .. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| a3b9086 | Los ingenieros del agua dejaron el calentador de la piscina en marcha demasiado tiempo y, por la noche, los vapores de cloro se elevaron por encima de la vida vegetal del planeta, y yo imagine mi carne en el interior de la piscina, calida, protegida, sintiendo la gravedad, pero capaz al mismo tiempo de burlarla flotando. ?Flotarias conmigo ahora, si te lo pidiera, saltarias a la piscina, sin desnudarte siquiera? ?Podria desnudarte dentro, q.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fa94899 | The whole Silicon Valley is oxymoronic--geeky and rich and hip. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 9aabffe | The less of a life, the more mail you need | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 03386ef | Loneliness is my curse---our species' curse---it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5bcefce | I'm not cheerful or domestic. I'm drab, crabby and friendless. I fill my days fighting a constant battle to keep my dignity. Loneliness is my curse- our species' curse- it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3fbda14 | Please, God, don't let Warren be cheap. I'm too young to discuss coupons. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8778139 | He'd probably no more view his life as a story than he would view his life that of a sea cucumber. | life | Douglas Coupland | |
| 5f4cef7 | Leslie entered the lounge like a taller, studlier version of the Kentucky Fried Chicken colonel. | kfc | Douglas Coupland | |
| 31d0d58 | Holy crap!" Rachel wondered what it was about extreme disaster that made people invoke both religion and excrement - bookends to mark the polarities of human condition?" | humor | Douglas Coupland | |
| 377ddac | I've been thinking about this so much. When I say time I mean history, or... I think it's human to confuse history with time." "That's for sure." "No, listen. Other animals don't have time - they're simply part of the universe. But people- we get time and history. What if the world had continued on? Try to imagine a Nobel Peace Prize winner of the year 3056, or postage stamps with spatulas on them because we ran out of anything else to put .. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| cc7cef6 | Es tarde. Hay baloncesto en la tele; revistas de ordenador y fitness por todas partes. Quiero hablar del amor. ?Se acuerda alguien de esa vieja serie El superagente 86? ?Del principio, cuando Maxwell Smart recorre el pasillo secreto y hay toda una serie de puertas y rejas que se van abriendo lateral y verticalmente? Creo que todo el mundo tiene un monton de puertas como esas entre ellos y el mundo; pero, cuando estas enamorado, todas tus p.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 9e68580 | Neal fished around in a bag, removed something and handed it to me. It was a forky thing, but with a round depression. "What the fuck is this?" "It's a spork." -- | Douglas Coupland | ||
| b157b14 | Jesus, Neal, watching you eat with a spork is like seeing Helen Keller at a ladies' afternoon tea. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6dfce99 | Once you've used your brain flat-out, you can't go into the SLOW mode. You can't drive an Infinite J-3B and then get downgraded to an Daewoo. Brains don't workd that way. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 9beaa90 | It had been drilled into us that to feel fear is to not fully trust God. Whoever made that up has never been beneath a cafeteria table with a tiny thread of someone else's blood trickling onto their leg. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 31a2ef1 | It's amazing how you can be a total shithead, and yet your soul still wants to hang out with you. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5026ada | Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp. | technology | Douglas Coupland | |
| 1ff7abf | Could I ever be a Craig? No. A person must be born into Craigdom, with its multiple ski holidays, complex orthodontia, proper nutrition and casual, healthy view of recreational sex. My | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 1456806 | we started talking more about all of the fiftysomethings being dumped out of the economy by downsizing. No one knows what to do with these people, and it's so sad, because being 50 nowadays isn't like being 50 a hundred years ago when you'd probably be dead. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 36401a2 | it would have been an affront to all good souls who had worked for a better world over the millennia not to engineer a system for preserving finer thoughts after the millennium arrived and all ideologies died and people became animals once more. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 54bdd18 | At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0ca76c4 | I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5868fe1 | Item 33: Get the fuck out of Dodge. Check, check, check. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a3577cf | You see ... I know nuclear warheads have a bum rap in our culture--radiation, nuclear winter, massive extinction, sad little doll heads lying in the gutter covered with bits of black muck. But to watch one exploding in real life is insanely fucking awesome. Yes. It is true. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself, snacking on saltines and drinking Arrowhead bottled water while our plane circled a heaving, pulsating, smoking-h.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 4d3d6fb | The thing about Jason Bourne is that he only really shines when he's being chased. Without the forces of evil pursuing him, Jason Bourne is basically council house trash living on KFC and the proceeds of his illegal Polish and Romanian girlfriends who'll toss you off for a tenner at the local lottery ticket kiosk. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 06b5a15 | One psycho for every nine stable people in the company is a good ratio. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5c0ec5d | Sometimes we all forget that the world itself is paradise, and there has been much of late to enourage that amnesia. (Microserfs, p 366) | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fdc594b | People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future and whatever happens to you after you die - it's all melted together. Death isn't the escape hatch the way it used to be. | death dominion environment nature | Douglas Coupland | |
| a929377 | I seriously wish that he had spent his entire childhood being serially arse-raped by teachers, scoutmasters, members of the clergy, relatives, policemen, doctors, door-to-door salesmen and all registered sex offenders within a 500-mile radius of his unprotected bedroom. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8590f86 | The Douglas Coupland-esque environment in which I work every day does not deter me from laying it down on paper; on the contrary: celebrate dullness, I say. | France Belleville-Van Stone | ||
| f197960 | The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he will ever be. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 9138e6c | We threw chew toys to Misty, Mom's golden retriever that she bought two years ago secondhand. Misty was supposed to be a seeing-eye dog, but she failed her exam because she's too affectionate. It's a flaw we don't mind. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 08b3a3b | Brennan remembers a Nortel recruiting truck showing up at a Newbridge mass termination meeting at the local hockey arena and offers this practical advice: "If all the meeting rooms are booked at the same time, it means something's up." By "something," he means firings." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 7fa8bd6 | the bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 36868f7 | Mozda je molitva zapravo zelja da ulancas dogadaje u svom zivotu tako da sacine pricu- nesto sto pokazuje smisao dogadaja za koje znas da imaju znacenje. Bar se zato ja molim" Harj" | Douglas Coupland | ||
| eeec5da | These were citizens who, never having bothered to awaken to the technological and psychic changes in their world, hadn't bothered to defend themselves, hadn't bothered to build walls or plan or counterattacks or build weapons-- asleep inside their collective dream, thinking for all the world that the unthinkable would never happen. Thinking they were safe. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 95321ed | Speaking of the information superhighway, we have all given each other official permission to administer a beating to whoever uses that accursed term. We're so sick of it! | Douglas Coupland | ||
| adf7755 | You could return to that same hive a thousand years later and there would be just the same perception of tomorrow as never being any different. Humans are completely different. We assume tomorrow is another world. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e0992e9 | Actually, it's not the impertinence I'm punishing him for, it's that he let other people know what he wanted. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fa723de | innocent." Stupid, stupid woman, but a woman whose daughter was lost in the" | Douglas Coupland | ||
| b1d1dc1 | What about life after death?" "What about death after life after death?" | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 1321992 | Ci siamo trovati tutti coinvolti in una discussione sul genere di software che progetterebbero i cani, se potessero farlo. Secondo Marty, si tratterebbe di programmi per delimitare il territorio, con simulatori di pipi e interfacce lappabili. Antonella ha tirato fuori l'idea di un OssoFinder. Ad Harold e venuta in mente una cuccia fatta col CAD, tutto altamente cartone animato/sensoriale, con un sacco di elementi visuali. Poi naturalmente .. | humor | Douglas Coupland |