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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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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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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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