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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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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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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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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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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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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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