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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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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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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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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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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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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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Writing needs to be practiced there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
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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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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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To each our own Hamlet.
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