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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
Talk

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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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To each our own Hamlet.
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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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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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