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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Quite
Written
Understand
Flatness
Someone
Varying
Character
Nuance
Might
Subconscious
Leaves
Degrees

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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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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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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: Remember, m'boy, his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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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.
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You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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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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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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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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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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