Generation A Quotes

“Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A

“How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A

“You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A

“Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A

“Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A

“What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A

“How cruel that mankind was forced to conform to the global electronic experience. But all other options had vanished. There no longer existed a country to escape to (“country”—also, what a quaint notion) where people read books and had lives that became stories.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A

“Could I ever be a Craig? No. A person must be born into Craigdom, with its multiple ski holidays, complex orthodontia, proper nutrition and casual, healthy view of recreational sex. My”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A

“Možda je molitva zapravo želja da ulančaš događaje u svom životu tako da sačine priču- nešto što pokazuje smisao događaja za koje znaš da imaju značenje. Bar se zato ja molim" Harj”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A