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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.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
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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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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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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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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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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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