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A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.
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Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment—the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.
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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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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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The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.
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I got Oedipus off the incest charge—technicality, of course—he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
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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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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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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good—and we all know how rare that is...
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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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What's the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn't happened yet? I don't know—avant verrais?
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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 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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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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Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
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We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
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If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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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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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought—and more reading.
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed—and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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Jasper Fforde
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Born:
January 11, 1961
(age 63)
Bio:
Jasper Fforde is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001.
Known for:
The Eyre Affair (2001)
Shades of Grey (2009)
Lost in a Good Book (2002)
The Last Dragonslayer (2010)
The Well of Lost Plots (2003)
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