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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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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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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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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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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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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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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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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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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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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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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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