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“What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?”

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Douglas Coupland книга Пока подружка в коме

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

“I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -- sproing!-- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.”

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Douglas Coupland книга Life After God

Life After God (1994)

“You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.”

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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.”
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.””

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Douglas Coupland книга JPod

JPod (2006)

“"You're never too old to dance, Dad… and you're never too old to dream."
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?"”

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Douglas Coupland книга JPod

JPod (2006)

“Older staffers don’t even bother coming in on weekends. Where is the sleep-crazed, Pepsi-fuelled one-point-oh tech environment that can only be created by having no green vegetables, no sex and no life?
Cowboy said, “I miss the greed of the 1990s bubble.”
John Doe said, “I miss the possibility of unearned wealth.”
Bree said, “I miss the possibility of doing something Apple, something one-point-oh.”
Evil Mark said, “I miss people having Hot Wheels tracks set up in their cubicles.”
Gord-O walked into the pod. “You can’t miss the nineties, because you weren’t there. They were great. Too bad you screwed-up twits missed out on the party.””

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Douglas Coupland книга JPod

JPod (2006)

“All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.”

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Douglas Coupland

Generation X (1991)

“I have this feeling watching Jasmine - that as you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong; you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.”

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Douglas Coupland книга Планета шампуня

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Unlike Rachel, Player One has a complete overview both of the world and of time. Player One’s life is more like a painting than it is a story. Player One can see everything with a glance and can change tenses at will. Player One has ultimate freedom, the ultimate software on the ultimate hardware. That realm is also the one place where Player One feels, for lack of a better word, normal.”

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Douglas Coupland книга Player One

Player One (2010)

“I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.”

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Douglas Coupland книга Планета шампуня

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world — everyone has one and it never gets used.”

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Douglas Coupland книга JPod

JPod (2006)

“You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.”

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Douglas Coupland

Generation X (1991)

“When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.”

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Douglas Coupland книга Планета шампуня

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Truly modern citizens are both charismatic and can only respond to other people with charisma. To survive, people need to become self-branding charisma robots. Yet, ironically, society mocks and punishes people who aspire to that state.”

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Douglas Coupland книга Generation A

Generation A (2009)

“If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day.”

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Douglas Coupland книга Пока подружка в коме

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

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

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Douglas Coupland книга JPod

JPod (2006)

“A girl can’t control who will and who won’t fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully… awkward.”

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Douglas Coupland книга JPod

JPod (2006)

“At twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star… by twenty-five you know you're not going to be a dentist or a professional… by thirty, a darkness starts moving in - you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy or successful… by thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing the rest of your life; you become resigned to your fate.”

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Douglas Coupland книга Пока подружка в коме

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

“Technology does not always equal progress.”

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Douglas Coupland книга Life After God

Life After God (1994)