Jasper Fforde Quotes
You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.
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I go into every fight trying to win as easy as I can.
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I was a huge O. J. Simpson fan.
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I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.
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As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
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Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.
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After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
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One must stand stiller than still.
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The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.
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I never consciously set out to model myself after Upton Sinclair.
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I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don't need a boyfriend.
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Might let him take it home and slaughter that/ He got friends for all of my friends/ They ain't leaving 'till we say when/ And we gon' hangover the next day.
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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.
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A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
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There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.
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I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.
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Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
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If you never noticed, it never happened.
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Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
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My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
