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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
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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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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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