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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
Fate
Choice
Choices
Doe
Sometimes
Afford
Luxury

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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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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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