Jasper Fforde Quotes - Page 6

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• Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

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  Sorry, Overwhelming Desire, Long

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

  Jasper Fforde

  Mad, Political Correctness, Call Me

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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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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  Dream, Believe, Night

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.37, Hachette UK

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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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  Landscape, Lord, Form

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• He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

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  Book, Needs, Attention

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• Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

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  Verbs, Majesty, Sentences

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• I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

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  Curiosity, Doubt, I Don't Need You

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• I have the death sentence in seven genres.

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  Seven, Genre, Death Sentence

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.57, Penguin

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• Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

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  Book, Awards, Seven

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.120, Penguin

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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.

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  Believe, Eight, Years

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• To each our own Hamlet.

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  "Something Rotten". Book by Jasper Fforde, August 5, 2004.

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• Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

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  Kindness, Evil, Serenity

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

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  Rap, Taste In Music, Rats

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• There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

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  Book, Degrees, Creeps

  "The new Jasper Fforde: a brave new bookworld!". www.wired.com. February 23, 2011.

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• People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

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  Book, Ideas, People

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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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  Mother, Oedipus, Courses

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.47, Penguin

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• The best plans are always the simplest.

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  Plans, Simplest

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• There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

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  Confused, Thinking, Albums

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• Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

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  Two, Different, Ends

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• Every book should have a romance.

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  Book, Should Have, Romance

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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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  Fun, Fiction, Share

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.55, Penguin

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• Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.

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  Mirrors, People, Literature

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• I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

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  Errors, Principles, Mankind

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• Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.

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  Reading, Writing, Long Ago

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.64, Penguin

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• The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.

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  Moving, Fall, Glasses

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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