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The best plans are always the simplest.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Simplest
Plans
Best
Always

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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: Remember, m'boy, his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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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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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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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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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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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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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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