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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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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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Writing needs to be practiced there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
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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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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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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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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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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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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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