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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Boyfriends
Exes
Collect
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Five
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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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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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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