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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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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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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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You nearly killed eight people! I managed to gasp out loud. My count was closer to twelve, returned Havisham as she opened the door. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
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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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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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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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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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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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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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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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