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Douglas Coupland quotes about time
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
— Douglas Coupland, Life After God
Chronocanine Envy:Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one’s dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, “Life must be lived forward.
— Douglas Coupland
Dimanchophobia:Fear of Sundays, not in a religious sense but rather, a condition that reflects fear of unstructured time. Also known as acalendrical anxiety. Not to be confused with didominicaphobia, or kyriakephobia, fear of the Lord’s Day.Dimanchophobia is a mental condition created by modernism and industrialism. Dimanchophobes particularly dislike the period between Christmas and New Year’s, when days of the week lose their significance and time blurs into a perpetual Sunday. Another way of expressing dimanchophobia might be “life in a world without calendars.” A popular expression of this condition can be found in the pop song “Every Day is Like Sunday, ” by Morrissey, in which he describes walking on a beach after a nuclear way, when every day of the week now feels like Sunday.
— Douglas Coupland
We can no longer create the feeling of an era…of time being particular to one spot in time.
— Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
Is that all time is – our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?
— Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us
And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings have ever come to crystallizing time and free will into a compact physical form. Cash. Cash is a time crystal. Cash allows you to multiply your will, and it allows you to speed up time. Cash is what defines us as a species. Nothing else in the universe has money.
— Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us
Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one’s sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.
— Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
— Douglas Coupland
Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise, it’s just you.
— Douglas Coupland
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