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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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
Opera
Marriage
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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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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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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