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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer's day, a long-running sitcom, one's life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?
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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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