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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Science
Skeptic
Every
Skeptical
Expert
Skepticism
Experts
Opposite
Opposites
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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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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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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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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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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