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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.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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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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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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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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