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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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