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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Imagination
Sound
Words
Individual
Squiggles
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Meanings
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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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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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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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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 collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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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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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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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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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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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.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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