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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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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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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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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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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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