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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
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London
England
Simplest
Plans
Best
Always
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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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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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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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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Writing needs to be practiced there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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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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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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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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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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