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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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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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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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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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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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