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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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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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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
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