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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
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More quotes by Jasper Fforde
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
Jasper Fforde
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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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