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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
Writer
London
England
Something
Never
Would
Like
Spinach
Opera
Marriage
Thought

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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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