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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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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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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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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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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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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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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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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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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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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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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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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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