Douglas Coupland Quotes on Truth

5 quotes

  1. I don't want dainty little moments of insight ...

  2. Nobody believes the identites we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

  3. Ask whatever challenges dead and thoughtless beliefs.

  4. As he ages and sees more of the world, he's realizing that bad news is a part of life, and that when you have to give it, just say it and get it over with.

  5. It turns out that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony - which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. I can't imagine anything worse than that. Okay, maybe I can, but imagine reading the morning newspaper and believing it all to be true on some level.

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