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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Majesty
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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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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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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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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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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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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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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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