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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Religion
War
Wars
Excuse
Cause
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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 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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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