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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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  One Day, Majority, Lessons

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

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• If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

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  Art, Hate, Passion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.

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  Elderly, Rest Of Life, Expectations

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• Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

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  Dream, Viruses, World

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• Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

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  Mistake, Smart, Dirty

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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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  Summer, Running, Wine

  Jasper Fforde (2012). “The Woman Who Died a Lot: Thursday Next”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

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  Giving, Flow, Events

  Jasper Fforde (2012). “The Last Dragonslayer”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

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  Imagination, Sound, Paper

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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?

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  Opposites, Happened, Knows

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.303, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

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  Fate, Luxury, Choices

  Jasper Fforde (2012). “The Last Dragonslayer”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Personality, Quota, Care

  Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.213, Penguin

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• I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.

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  Love, Friendship, Giving Up

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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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  Evil, Know How, Knows

  Jasper Fforde (2009). “The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

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  Hate, Character, People

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.462, Hachette UK

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• There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

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  Payback, Rotten, Denmark

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “Something rotten”

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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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  Mistake, People, Cost

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

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• Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

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  Wall, Way, Sat

  Jasper Fforde (2006). “The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime”, p.51, Penguin

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• There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

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  Country, Men, Next

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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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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  Past, Impossible Things, Scare

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

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

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  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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

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  Bird, Taste, Bits

  Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.130, Penguin

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• Defiance through compliance.

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  Defiance, Compliance

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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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  Excuse, Used, Should

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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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  Should Have, Quality, Century

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• Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

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  Nostalgia, Used, Used To Be

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