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Douglas Coupland
“Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?”
Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Douglas Coupland
“What one moment from you defines what it’s like to be alive on this planet. What’s your takeaway?’’
There is silence. Tobias doesn’t get her point, and frankly, neither do I. She continues: ‘’Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don’t count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you’re really alive.”
Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Douglas Coupland
“As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.”
Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Douglas Coupland
“I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value.”
Douglas Coupland, Generatie X: vertellingen voor een versnelde cultuur

Douglas Coupland
“Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.”
Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

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