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

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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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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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