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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
Writer
London
England
Hardwired
Inception
Devised
Bureaucracy
Error
Errors
Anything
Men

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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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