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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Yardsticks
Points
Granted
High
Taken
Without
Sometimes
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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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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...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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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: Remember, m'boy, his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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