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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Word
Kind
Switched
Drew
Breath
Breaths
Listening

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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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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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