Дуглас Коупленд: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 10)

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“You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.”

Douglas Coupland книга Планета шампуня

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“I have this theory about smart people. If you’re smart, you’re either the only person in your family who’s smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between.”

Douglas Coupland книга JPod

I considered this. “I think I come from the everybody’s smart category. But they don’t apply their smarts to… larger picture pursuits. That includes me.”
JPod (2006)

“Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere.”

Douglas Coupland книга Планета шампуня

Marge is Anna-Louise's word describing sad, 1950s-ish diner-type places where the waitresses are named Marge."
Shampoo Planet (1992)

“You're never too old to dance, Dad…and you're never too old to dream.”

Douglas Coupland книга JPod

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?"
JPod (2006)

“Just go and feed yourselves on a wide array of products containing high-fructose corn sugar. Zheesh.”

Douglas Coupland книга JPod

"That wasn't funny, Evil Mark. It sounded fake and hollow. You're terrible at being ironic, and you've been rehearsing that line, haven't you?"
JPod (2006)

“Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures… And I think back over my life and I realize that my own nature -the core me”

Douglas Coupland книга Life After God

essentially hasn't changed over all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel the same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
Life After God (1994)

“I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof!”

Douglas Coupland книга Планета шампуня

I discover I only knew a cartoon version. Suddenly there's this fleshy, demanding, noisy creature in front of me, unknowable and just as lost as I am, and equally unable to remember that every soul in the world is hurting, not just themselves.
Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Hang on a second—you already have my old laptop. Why do you want my new drives so badly?”

Douglas Coupland книга JPod

"Because my contract says I have to write a book, and it's much easier just to steal your life than to make something up."
JPod (2006)