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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fa1d305 | Ia ne priznaiu samoubiistva. Ono ved' ne meniaet togo fakta, chto ty zhil na zemle, a v tu minutu ia zhelal lish' odnogo -- nikogda ne sushchestvovat'... | Max Frisch | ||
| 53c5103 | The one appalling thing about electric cars is that one plugs them into already overtaxed municipal power grids. Try mentioning this to a politician or manufacturer who wants to ride the green wave and you will quickly find yourself escorted out of the room. Mention this twice and you'll magically find yourself on the No Fly List. Mention this three times and your cold lifeless body will be found in a clump of brambles off the nearest motor.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 5164e5f | Instead of feeling sexy and tingly, it felt useless, like recycling plastics or registering to vote. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 39ec9cb | My delaem svoikh chad kalekami na vsiu zhizn', umalchivaia ob odinochestve v ego ottenkakh, polutonakh i podoplekakh. A vot kogda bakhnet po bashke (obychno posle togo, kak my vyletaem iz rodnogo gnezdyshka), my i poniat' ne mozhem, chto striaslos'. Glazeem po storonam, kak osharashennye. Na bolezn' valim, shizoidnye i bipoliarnye rasstroistva sebe vydumyvaem, greshim na durnoi kharakter i nedostatok khroma v ratsione. Godam k tridtsati do .. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 4a1e644 | Byvaet, napadet khandra -- kazhetsia, tak i pomresh' odinokoi; ni v nastoiashchem, ni v budushchem nichego khoroshego ne svetit. Ogliadyvaias' na prozhitye gody, vspominaesh' tol'ko oshibki i neudachi, kalecha tem samym i proshloe. No osobenno nepriiatno to, chto, znaia vraga v litso, ty ne v silakh nichego s nim podelat'. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| f1e1e66 | Zhizn' odinokogo cheloveka sviazana s ritualom izgnaniia vakuuma iz vecherov, provedennykh v odinochestve. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 07f2661 | Ci sono altre ragioni per cui mi sono innamorato di Karla; ragioni non cosi poetiche, ma ugualmente reali. E un' per me, e abbiamo tutti questi interessi comuni... "incontri della mente"... qualunque cosa essa sia. Posso parlare di computer e della Microsoft e di quella parte della nostra vita, ma facciamo anche conversazioni esoteriche che non hanno niente a che fare con la vita tech. Non ho mai avuto davvero un'amica cosi intima prima. E.. | love | Douglas Coupland | |
| aa84870 | Now: I am an affectionate man but I have much trouble showing it. When I was younger I used to worry so much about being alone - of being unlovable or incapable of love. As the years went on, my worries changed. I worried that I had become incapable of having a relationship, of offering intimacy. I felt as though the world lived inside a warm house at night and I was outside, and I couldn't be seen - because I was out there in the night. Bu.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 44ffacd | Vsio, chto voznikaet za schiot deneg, vsegda voznikaet vspyshkoobrazno. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e62f1b6 | When I started researching this book, I thought that the Internet was a metaphor for life; now I think life is a metaphor for the Internet. I'm not trying to be cute. Just as it is impossible to point to a single spark within the human brain that proves life, so it is impossible to disprove that the Internet is a living thing. It is massive. It never sleeps. And more and more, it's talking about us behind our backs. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e63f6ee | 4 560 110 zemlian segodnia vliubilis'. 4 560 007 - razliubili. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6622a8c | Mam, ia nikogda tebia po-nastoiashchemu ne uznaiu. Ty tozhe eto ponimaesh'? -- Ponimaiu. -- Nado bylo sviazat'sia s toboi ran'she. -- Chepukha. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| cec1928 | Nachnem s togo, chto, na moi vzgliad, tol'ko liudi mogut otdelit' son ot grez naiavu. Bud' ty l'venkom, meduzoi ili paporotnikom -- ty ne otlichish' bodrstvovanie ot sna. Mne kazhetsia, chto eshche neskol'ko tysiach let nazad liudi tozhe tak schitali. A potom poiavilsia chelovek, kotoryi razrushil zamknutyi krug i raskryl raznitsu mezhdu dvumia mirami. Neskol'ko soten let liudi svykalis' s mysl'iu, chto zhizn' naiavu i mechta -- dve soversh.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 7d99891 | V nekotorom rode dazhe priiatno ostavat'sia v nevedenii otnositel'no togo, chto s nami proiskhodit do rozhdeniia ili posle smerti. Ili chto sluchitsia v nervnoe, nepredskazuemoe vremia mezhdu migom, kotoryi oboznachaet nashu gotovnost' k peremenam v zhizni, i momentom, kogda eti peremeny proiskhodiat. | life | Douglas Coupland | |
| f6fd89c | Nu pochemu imenno my? Nu pochemu, naprimer, ne indiiskii prodavets risa, skazhem, iz Lakhora, srednikh let, vdobavok sifilitik i kollektsioner belich'ikh chuchel. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 292a198 | Zdes' u vsekh takoi vid, slovno oni prinimaiut uchastie v programme zashchity i peremeshcheniia svidetelei. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| b2fb202 | Predstav', chto ty kloniruesh' sebia i kazhdyi raz peredaiosh' instruktsiiu chto nuzhno i ne nuzhno delat'. Navernoe, tak my i budem evoliutsionirovat' v budushchem. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e0feb8d | TERMINAL WANDERLUST: A condition common to people of transient middle-class upbringings. Unable to feel rooted in any one environment, they move continually in the hopes of finding an idealized sense of community in the next location. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d1948ee | I wish I knew how bad I could become. I wish I could get a printout that showed me exactly how susceptible I was to a long list of sins. Gluttony: 23 percent susceptible. Envy: 68 percent susceptible. Lust: 94 percent susceptible. That kind of thing. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3abcb2c | If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love. | falling-in-love-quotes intimacy love love-quotes | Douglas Coupland | |
| 8d38461 | Nothing to it but to do it, nothing to it but to do it. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| dfe5556 | This is not an apartment in which fresh vegetables are consumed. It smells like a dead spice rack. | bachelorhood | Douglas Coupland | |
| adb2272 | People are leaky. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| ee5599f | The heart of a man is like deep water. | men | Douglas Coupland | |
| 5afc6ab | Daca am fi avut convingeri, oare am fi avut macar curajul sa le urmam? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| c77b7aa | Probably tastes like a pocket calculator garnished with dried herpes juice flakes. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e6bd6b9 | Bogatyi muzhchina -- eto neizmenno prosto bogatyi muzhchina, a bogataia zhenshchina -- eto vsego-navsego neschastnaia babentsiia, u kotoroi vodiatsia den'zhata. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e0ca508 | But when you're caked in your own leavings, you don't really mind being hit with brutally hard jets of water. | shit trains | Douglas Coupland | |
| ae1a42c | Te, komu grezitsia apokalipsis, prosto ne predstavliaiut sebe zhizn' posle smerti. I esli im pridetsia pokinut' etot svet, oni gotovy zabrat' s soboi ves' mir. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| b62a6c4 | Remember: Condoms promote licentiousness, so reconsider before using. | licentiousness slacking | Douglas Coupland | |
| da3aecb | There's something fun about Sharpies that's really hard to articulate. | fun sharpies | Douglas Coupland | |
| d2328b8 | How strange that all you have to do sometimes to meet somebody is walk up to their house and ring a doorbell, and magically they appear as if from nowhere. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 706545a | Because in the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines. | forgetting humanity | Douglas Coupland | |
| 883d251 | And if you were such a good clairvoyant, why didn't you just write things straight out? What's with all the stupid rhyming quatrains? Thanks for nothing. | nostradamus-coupland | Douglas Coupland | |
| ade43df | One contradiction of the human heart is this: God refuses to see any one person as unique in his or her relationship to Him, and yet we humans see each other as bottomless wells of creativity and uniqueness. | god-s-love philosophy philosophy-of-life philosophy-of-religion religion | Douglas Coupland | |
| 3a9c5f4 | Just imagine how it must feel to know that your family won't be going to heaven with you- I mean, truly believing that. We're ghosts to him. We might a well be dead. | family-relationships religious-extremism religious-faith | Douglas Coupland | |
| 964eb29 | Crawl to your God, you arrogant bastard. See if your God doesn't look at the slime trail you leave behind you and throw you to the buzzards. You heartless, sad little man. You don't even have a soul. You killed it years ago. I want you to die. You got that? I want you to die. | religious-extremism | Douglas Coupland | |
| 5c3eb47 | Dag says he's a lesbian trapped inside a man's body. Figure that out. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 7f8f2ae | One form of public speaking not usually recognized as such is teaching. I've had a few experiences in educational situations and they've been worse than flies crawling over my face. I don't know if it's me or what, but having to speak to college students is like having to address a crowd of work-shirking entitlement robots whose only passion, aside from making excuses as to why they didn't do their assignments, is lying in wait, ready to po.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d33073b | The art world is largely mistrustful of shiny things and, on some level, even fearful of them. But 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 the surface is the content. Fear of sheen is the fear that surface equals depth, that banality equals beauty, that shiny objects are merely transient concretizations of the image economy, and proof that Wa.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| ccb4420 | Are you a minimalist? Do you take pride in a reductive life? Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders: they hoard space, and they're just as odd as those people with seven rooms filled with newspapers, dead cats and margarine tubs | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0e42b88 | Do you think that being quick to judge, and being quick to pre-emptively please your internal 400-level professor, means you ignore or dismiss things that might actually be interesting? Is it better to be safe than wrong? Do you sometimes see people talking and you can tell it's not even them doing the talking--they're merely channelling their internal professor? Does this activate your own internal professor? Do you call them on it? No, yo.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| aa45bb3 | I've always been interested in the unintended side effects of technology. For instance, when the car was invented, who would have thought dogs would like sticking their heads out the window to enjoy the scentscape generated by speed and wind? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 09c9678 | The show's host assumed I was going to be an ironic slacker wise-ass and said, "I guess you must think this whole mall is kind of hokey and trashy," and I said, "No such thing." He was surprised. "What do you mean?" "I mean that I feel like I'm in another era that we thought had vanished, but it really hasn't, not yet. I think we might one day look back on photos of today and think to ourselves, 'You know, those people were living in golde.. | Douglas Coupland |