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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Principles
Hardwired
Anything
Inception
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Mischief
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Error
Errors
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Mankind

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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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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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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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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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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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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 move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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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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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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