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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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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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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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.
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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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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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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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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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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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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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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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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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