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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Purely
Cancer
Sake
Growth
Philosophy

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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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