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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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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 name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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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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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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