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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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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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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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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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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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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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