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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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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 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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The best plans are always the simplest.
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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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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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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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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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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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