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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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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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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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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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