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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Chimera
Screams
Alert
Follows
Scream

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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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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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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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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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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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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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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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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