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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
Mandatory
Librarian
Insane
Afraid
Talk
People

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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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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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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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