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

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Really
Like
People
Fond
Leaves
Society
Words

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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at 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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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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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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You nearly killed eight people! I managed to gasp out loud. My count was closer to twelve, returned Havisham as she opened the door. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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