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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Little
Perhaps
Blossom
Need
Emotion
Quietly
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Bits
Suspicion
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Doubt
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Agree
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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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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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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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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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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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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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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