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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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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Realized
Better
Many
Would
Blighted
World
Calmed
Noticed
Imperfect
Temper

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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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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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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
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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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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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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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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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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