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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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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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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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