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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Apart
Scene
Might
Real
Pervaded
Odor
Ink
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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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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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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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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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To each our own Hamlet.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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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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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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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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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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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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