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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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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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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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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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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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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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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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