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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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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Ultimate
Stand
Takes
Cojones
Zeus
Rebel

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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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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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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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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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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 you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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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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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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