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The best plans are always the simplest.

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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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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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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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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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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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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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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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 still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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