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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Failure
Mistake
Enough
Hard
Trying
Mind
Concentrates
Make
Wonderfully
Mistakes

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