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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Prejudice
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Tradition
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