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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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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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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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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. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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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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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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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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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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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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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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