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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
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You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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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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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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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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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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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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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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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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