“Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.”

—  Douglas Coupland , book Girlfriend in a Coma

Source: Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

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Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and grap… 1961

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