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The only time we get to fight the powers of darkness is during one of the kingdom's frequent power cuts
— Jasper Fforde
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
— Jasper Fforde
I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Businessman, philanthropist, large egg.
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I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
— Jasper Fforde
The best plans are always the simplest.
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Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope
— Jasper Fforde
I wished I could share my own optimism.
— Jasper Fforde
Death cannot be avoided forever, but it can be postponed - in that respect it's very like the washing up.
— Jasper Fforde
I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.
— Jasper Fforde
We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
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Most of Mycroft's ideas were far too dangerous to even think about, much less let loose on a world unprepared for hyper-radical thought.
— Jasper Fforde
Male guilt avoidance syndrome,' explained my father. 'It's a recognised medical condition by 2054.
— Jasper Fforde
All those words,' she whispered, 'so diligently placed together, and so pointlessly torn apart.
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Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a celebration. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!
— Jasper Fforde
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder ... I'm an average man ... with a truly extraordinary wife
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Humans are the most gloriously bizarre creatures.
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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.
— Jasper Fforde
I have the death sentence in seven genres.
— Jasper Fforde
The opposition Prevailingwind Party led by Alfredo Traficcone
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
— Jasper Fforde
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
— Jasper Fforde
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
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Sometimes living in the BookWorld is like living in Legoland.
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You'll like it here; everyone is quite mad.
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I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.
— Jasper Fforde
I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little.
He meant a liar. — Jasper Fforde
He meant a liar. — Jasper Fforde
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
— Jasper Fforde
The trip back home was uneventful and over in only twelve words.
— Jasper Fforde
Every book should have a romance.
— Jasper Fforde
True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good
and we all know how rare that is ... — Jasper Fforde
and we all know how rare that is ... — Jasper Fforde
The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point.
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[I]appreciate a woman who knows when she's being coerced
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For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.
— Jasper Fforde
Always expect a kick in the teeth," said Millon, "so that when you get a slap in the chops, it seems like a triumph.
— Jasper Fforde
Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
— Jasper Fforde
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
— Jasper Fforde
Don't you own a dodo?
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So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?
— Jasper Fforde
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about,
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Defiance through compliance.
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
— Jasper Fforde
Mary? said an officer who was carrying a large potted plant in the manner of someone who thinks it is well outside his job description.
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There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says ... it's payback time!
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We have it on good authority that they might disguise it as a double entendre in a bedroom farce and deliver it up the rear entrance at Comedy.
— Jasper Fforde
He said you were very dangerous."
"No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth. — Jasper Fforde
"No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth. — Jasper Fforde
In order to fail, first you have to try.
— Jasper Fforde
Class clowns become actors.
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Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. — Jasper Fforde
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. — Jasper Fforde
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
— Jasper Fforde
Besides, I punched him in the eye.
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The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.
— Jasper Fforde
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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Jack said nothing. It was time to start putting his plan into action. Then he remembered: He didn't have one.
— Jasper Fforde
Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy?
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I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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People don't change just because you know more about them.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
— Jasper Fforde
Strive for the Long Now
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Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.
— Jasper Fforde
The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe
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If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad -
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There were seven thermonuclear devices? queried Parks, who had latched on to Jack's outlandish explanation without too much difficulty, as should you.
— Jasper Fforde
... the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.
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I collect ex-boyfriends
and more than five, at last count. — Jasper Fforde
and more than five, at last count. — Jasper Fforde
If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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We all aspire to be ourselves, an original character in a litany of fiction so vast that we know we cannot.
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They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.
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The course of true love rarely runs smooth.
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I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all costs.
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Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.
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