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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Sculptor
Writer
Douglas Campbell Coupland
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I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger
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I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.
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