Jasper Fforde - Time Quotes

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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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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

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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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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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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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You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.

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You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

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It wasn't going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn't deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn't scare me as much as it used to.

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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

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