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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Hamlet
Rotten
Says
State
States
Something
Time
Denmark

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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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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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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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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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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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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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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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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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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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