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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
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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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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: Remember, m'boy, his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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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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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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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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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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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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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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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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