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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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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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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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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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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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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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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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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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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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