{"author":"Douglas Coupland","author_id":"Douglas+Coupland","total_quotes":127,"quotes":[{"text":"It had been drilled into us that to feel fear is to not fully trust God. Whoever made that up has never been beneath a cafeteria table with a tiny thread of someone else's blood trickling onto their leg.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["spirituality"],"id":888,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["holiday","you","break "],"id":4710,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["artist","books","brain","hijack","songs"],"id":6274,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["good","light","past "],"id":15445,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["day","stupid","think "],"id":17369,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["writing","speak","think "],"id":19963,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity. ","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["humanity","earth","down "],"id":21104,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["alone","yourself","lonely "],"id":21229,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["knowledge","history","people "],"id":22491,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["know","inside","cat "],"id":33997,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":127,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}