Jasper Fforde Quotes
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
Jasper Fforde
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
Gabrielle Giffords
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
Salman Rushdie
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
Karan Mahajan
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
Joanne Rowling
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I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
Irving Paul Lazar
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
Harold Brodkey
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I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I'll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we're going to have tragedies as a result of that. I'm telling you right up front.
Garry McCarthy
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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Wayne LaPierre
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I'd only started noticing that something had gone wrong when I got a call from Naomi Campbell, she called me and said, "You gotta do something about it, it's really bad, they're not using any models of color."
Bethann Hardison
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he God has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.
Martin Luther
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
Edmond Halley
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
Jasper Fforde
