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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Predicted
Odd
Destiny
Usually
Pretty
Thing

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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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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 have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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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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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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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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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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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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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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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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