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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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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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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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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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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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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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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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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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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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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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