Jasper Fforde Quotes
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
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Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Class clowns become actors.
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I wished I could share my own optimism.
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford
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The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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Every book should have a romance.
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When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.
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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.
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…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.