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Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past

Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.

Douglas Coupland
Memories, Past, Forever
Douglas Coupland (1996). “Polaroids from the Dead”, Harpercollins

I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

Douglas Coupland
Loss, Caring, Past
Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

Douglas Coupland
Sorry, Past, People
Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The past is a finite resource.

Douglas Coupland
Past, Resources, Finite

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

Douglas Coupland
Dream, Cat, Past
Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Douglas Coupland
Birthday, Dream, Past
Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Douglas Coupland
Past, Ideas, Two
Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

Douglas Coupland
Past, Bulls, Glue
"The gum thief". Book by Douglas Coupland, September 25, 2007.

TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it's about your voice. And finally the report, what you're actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair.

Douglas Coupland
Past, Hair, Voice
Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. April 15, 1998.

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