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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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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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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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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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