Jasper Fforde Quotes
Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
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It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
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When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.
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If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.
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I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.
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The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.
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A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.
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I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.
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I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm.
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Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.
