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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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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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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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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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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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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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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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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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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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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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