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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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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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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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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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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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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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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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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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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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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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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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