Jasper Fforde Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.
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I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
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Say yes to everything.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
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Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
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I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.
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The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
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The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.
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I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.
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When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.
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I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
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The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
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Football was the best route to obtain my independence.
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I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.
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This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.
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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
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Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.
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I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.
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As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
