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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.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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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 have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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