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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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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London
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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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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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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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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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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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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