Psychology Quotes by Jasper Fforde

8 Psychology quotes by Jasper Fforde

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Fforde’s playful literary style yields eight concise reflections that tease apart how stories shape our mental perception and reality.

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My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative…

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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system…

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

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“Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered…

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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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“The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.”

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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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“But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”

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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…

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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…

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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

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Take no heed of her… She reads a lot of books.

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“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of…

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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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“They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.”

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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the…

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“Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.”

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“Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly…

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“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the…

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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…

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To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup…

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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

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“They keep an eye on forgery, illegal dealing and overtly free thespian interpretations. The actor in with them was Graham Huxtable. He was putting…

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