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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Literary
Forth
Hand
Hands
Really
Detection
Firearms
Sword
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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Writing needs to be practiced there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
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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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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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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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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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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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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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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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