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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
Faint
Apart
Scene
Might
Real
Pervaded
Odor
Ink

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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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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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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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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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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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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
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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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