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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Douglas Coupland
Real, Caring, Novelists
Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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

You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

Douglas Coupland
Caring, Loss, Thinking
Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.99, Random House

I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Douglas Coupland
Caring, Thinking, People
Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful

Douglas Coupland
Caring, Thinking, Years
Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.54, Hachette UK

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