"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships." ― Doug Coupland Topic(s): Relationship Tags: before, machines More From Doug Coupland "If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it." "High school is such a shared experience in North American culture." "Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine." More In Relationship "The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender."― Emil Ludwig "It is not really our country so much is the problem, it’s sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us."― Bob Corker "This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor’s lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren’t old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex."― Poppy Z. Brite