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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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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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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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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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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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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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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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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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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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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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