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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
Luxury
Fate
Choice
Choices
Doe
Sometimes
Afford

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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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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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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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