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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
Rats
Classical
Rap
Jazz
Taste
Varied
Music
Latino
Everything
Pack
Packs

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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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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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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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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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