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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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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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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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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
Jasper Fforde
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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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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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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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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You nearly killed eight people! I managed to gasp out loud. My count was closer to twelve, returned Havisham as she opened the door. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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