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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
Classical
Rap
Jazz
Taste
Varied
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Latino
Everything
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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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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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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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 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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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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