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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
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Ever
Wells
Well
Correctness
Differently
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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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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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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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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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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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