Jasper Fforde Quotes
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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Every book should have a romance.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
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This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.
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If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.
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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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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.
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It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
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I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.