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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Hypothetical

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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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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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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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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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