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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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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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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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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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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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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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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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