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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
Cojones
Zeus
Rebel
Ultimate
Stand
Takes

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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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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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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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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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The best plans are always the simplest.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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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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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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