Jasper Fforde quotes - page 3

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom. (Jasper Fforde)
I have the death sentence in seven genres. View quote
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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. View quote
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The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil. View quote
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You many have noticed I have a temper... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it. View quote
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. View quote
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition? View quote
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way. View quote
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I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times. View quote
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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. View quote
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the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. (Jasper Fforde)
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. View quote
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Defiance through compliance. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus. View quote
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us. View quote
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. View quote
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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. View quote
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The neanderthal experiment was simultaneously the high and low point of the genetic revolution. Successful in that a long-dead cousin of Homo sapien was brought back from extinction, yet a failure in that the scientists, so happy to gaze upon their experiments from their ever lofty ivory towers, had not seen so far as to consider the social implications that a new species of man might command in a world unvisited by their like for over 30 millennia. It was little surprise that so many neanderthals felt confused and unprepared for the pressures of modern life. It was Homo sapien at his least sapient. View quote
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Miss Havisham had told me about Generics. They were created here in the Well to populate the books that were to be written. At the point of creation they were simply a human canvas without paint - blank like a coin, ready to be stamped with individualism. They had no history, no conflicts, no foibles - nothing that might make them either readable or interesting in any way. It was up to various institutions to teach them to be useful members of fiction. They were graded, too. A to D, one through ten. Any that were D-graded were like worker bees in crowds and busy streets. Small speaking parts were C-grades; B-grades usually made up the bulk of featured but not leading characters. These parts usually -but not always- went to the A-grades, handpicked for their skills at character projection and multidimensionality. (Jasper Fforde)
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. View quote
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing. View quote
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What is there to forgive?... Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times. View quote
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams. View quote
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