Jasper Fforde Quotes
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The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
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I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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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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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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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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I wished I could share my own optimism.
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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 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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Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
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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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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.
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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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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Every book should have a romance.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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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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…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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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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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.