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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Flick
Jump
Parts
Simple
Good
Life

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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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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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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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You nearly killed eight people! I managed to gasp out loud. My count was closer to twelve, returned Havisham as she opened the door. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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