# Quote — Douglas Coupland, Generation A

> The hardest things in the world are being unique and having your life be a story. In the old days, it was much easier, but our modern fame-driven culture, with its real-time 24-7 marinade of electronic information, demands a lot from modern citizens, and poses great obstacles to narrative.

- Author: [Douglas Coupland](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland.md)
- Book: [Generation A](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/generation-a.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-coupland/generation-a/the-hardest-things

## More from this book

> Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)

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> Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media might do us all such tremendous favours when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much as the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Syracuse University commencement address, May 8, 1994 [Source of the book's title]

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> SOLON CR is indicated for the short-term treatment of psychological unease grounded in obsession with thinking about the near and distant future. By severing the link between the present moment and a patient’s perceived future state, researchers have found a pronounced and significant drop in all forms of anxiety. As well, researchers have found that disengagement with “the future” has allowed many patients complaining of persistent loneliness to live active and productive single lives with no fear or anxiety. (p. 95)

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