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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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Bureaucracy
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Anything
Men
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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