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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Afford
Luxury
Fate
Choice
Choices
Doe
Sometimes

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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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 fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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 have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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