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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: Remember, m'boy, his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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You nearly killed eight people! I managed to gasp out loud. My count was closer to twelve, returned Havisham as she opened the door. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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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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The best plans are always the simplest.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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