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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Gray
Adults
Minds
Ordinary
Speak
Children
Mind
Things
Denied

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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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