Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé.

—Douglas Coupland

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About Douglas Coupland

Portrait of Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian visual artist and writer. Trained originally as a sculptor, Coupland found unexpected success as a novelist with the publication of his 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has...

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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

—Douglas Coupland in Life After God

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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

—Douglas Coupland

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Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

—Douglas Coupland in All Families are Psychotic

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Here's my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. That's why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, they'll add, 'I'll have to get back to you on that.' Then they don't say anything else.

—Douglas Coupland

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I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.

—Ed Begley Jr.

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There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

—Florynce Kennedy

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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

—Robert Frost

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