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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.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
People
Lives
Others
Human
Humans
Counted
Take
Notice
Really
Mistakes
Make
Cost
Time
Mistake

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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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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've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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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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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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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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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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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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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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