A Quote by Douglas Coupland

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Canadian - Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Douglas Coupland

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