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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Anything
Temples
Without
Sudden
Long
Overwhelming
Time
Sorry
Came
Talk
Actually
Rubbing
Desire
Hamlet

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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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