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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

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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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.
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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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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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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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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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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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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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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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Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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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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