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Douglas Coupland
Canadian writer
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I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week.
—Douglas Coupland, Canadian writer, Hey Nostradamus!, 2003

Posted on January 28, 2000 at 5:47 PM

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Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English languiage after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.
—Douglas Coupland, Canadian writer, Generation X, 1991

Posted on January 17, 2001 at 8:46 PM

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