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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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...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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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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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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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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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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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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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 could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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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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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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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.
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