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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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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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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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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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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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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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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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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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