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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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