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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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
England
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Bureaucracy
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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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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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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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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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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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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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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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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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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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I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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