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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
People
Mandatory
Librarian
Insane
Afraid
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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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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...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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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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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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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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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 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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