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 am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
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Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
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My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
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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.
