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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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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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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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