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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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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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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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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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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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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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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
Jasper Fforde
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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