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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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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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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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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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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 is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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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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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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