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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Stunning
Absorbed
Nourishment
Rings
Landscape
Inside
Lord
Form
Stupendous

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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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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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