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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.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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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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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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