Jasper Fforde Quotes
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.
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Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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'Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.'
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I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.
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My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
