Jasper Fforde Short Quotes

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Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

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A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

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

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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

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Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

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Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.

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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

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The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

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Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.

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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel — it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

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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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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good—and we all know how rare that is...

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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

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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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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just... well, differently moraled, that's all.

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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

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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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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

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