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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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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Differently
Mad
Call
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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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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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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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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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.
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