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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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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Taste
Varied
Music
Latino
Everything
Pack
Packs
Rats
Classical
Rap
Jazz

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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
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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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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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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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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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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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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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