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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Writing needs to be practiced there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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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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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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