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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
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London
England
Mandatory
Librarian
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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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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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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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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
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