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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
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
Jasper Fforde
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
Jasper Fforde
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.
Jasper Fforde
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.
Jasper Fforde
I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
Jasper Fforde
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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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
Jasper Fforde
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
Jasper Fforde
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
Jasper Fforde
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
Jasper Fforde
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
Jasper Fforde
The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
Jasper Fforde
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.
Jasper Fforde
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
Jasper Fforde
For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
Jasper Fforde