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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Walls
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Way
Always
Humpty

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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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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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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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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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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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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 have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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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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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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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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...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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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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