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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
Zeus
Rebel
Ultimate
Stand
Takes
Cojones

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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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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 fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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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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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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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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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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