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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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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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You nearly killed eight people! I managed to gasp out loud. My count was closer to twelve, returned Havisham as she opened the door. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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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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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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