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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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London
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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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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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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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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.
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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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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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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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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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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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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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