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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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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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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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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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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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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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