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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.

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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...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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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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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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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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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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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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The best plans are always the simplest.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
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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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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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