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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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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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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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The best plans are always the simplest.
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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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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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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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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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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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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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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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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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