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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.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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