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You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

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
Time
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