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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

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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Aren
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Really
Hedge
Life
Extinction
Cats
Dominant
Friendly

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