Binge Quotes

“IT WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY forgettable day—a Tuesday?—one of those days that come and go, and then at the end of your life you wonder, Man, did I really piss away my life with an endless series of wasted Tuesdays?”
― Douglas Coupland, Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different

“She was born sad,” she said. “No, that’s not fair. People shouldn’t be born sad, because life will do that to them anyway.”
― Douglas Coupland, Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different

“Ah, life. We live our days. We have our memories. We have our opinions. We have feelings. And they all go into a cosmic blender and become karma smoothies that get left on the counter and are forgotten. Eventually they start to get all bubbly and rotten, and then you knock yours over and it spills and stains things, but you are too lazy to wipe it up, so it burnds hard, and if you neglect it too long enoug, it just sort of ossifies over time. And that`s your legacy. You had the gift of sentience and what did it get you?”
― Douglas Coupland, Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different

“People don’t change. They decay. They adopt ridiculous beliefs to pretend they have control over a world that is utterly indifferent to them. But they don’t change.”
― Douglas Coupland, Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different

“Yes, Unit. That’s why we hired you for this series of shoots—you’re a unit. You’re good-looking but not too good-looking, and your face has the quality most essential for effective clip art: it’s pretty much impossible to remember.”
― Douglas Coupland, Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different

“And that’s the day I became an artist. Nobody blames an artist for noticing stuff.”
― Douglas Coupland, Binge: 60 stories to make your brain feel different