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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Writing
Thing
Good
Publishers
Agents

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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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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: Remember, m'boy, his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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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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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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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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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