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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
People
Fond
Leaves
Society
Words
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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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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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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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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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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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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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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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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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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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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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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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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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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